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Autore: | Adams Edward <1963-> |
Titolo: | Liberal epic [[electronic resource] ] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / / Edward Adams |
Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina: | 809/.9359 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Liberal epic |
ISBN: | 1-280-49039-X |
9786613585622 | |
0-8139-3150-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461668403321 |
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