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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790119803321
• Autore: Adams Edward <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-280-49039-X; 9786613585622; 0-8139-3150-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Collana: Victorian literature and culture series
• Disciplina: 809/.9359
• Soggetti: Epic literature, English - History and criticism; History in literature; War in literature; Liberalism in literature; Liberalism - Great Britain - History; Literature and history - Great Britain - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.