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Liberal epic [electronic resource] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams

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Adams, Edward, 1963-
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
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x, 322 p. ; 25 cm.
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Contents
Introduction -- The ethical-aesthetic challenge to epic: Pope, Gibbon, and Scott -- Romantic liberal epic: Southey, Byron, and Napier -- Epic history, the novel, and war in the 1850s: Thackeray, MaCaulay, and Carlyle -- Utilitarianism and the intellectual critique of war: Mill, Creasy, and Buckle -- Popeian strategies in primitive and modern war epic: Morris, Kinglake, and high Victorian liberal epic -- Liberal epic before the Great War: Hardy, Trevelyan, Tolstoy, and Keynes -- Conclusion. from liberal epic to epic liberalism: Churchill and Wedgwood -- Epilogue. the warm and visible hand of liberal epic.
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9780813931456 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813931500 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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