Liberal epic [[electronic resource] ] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / / Edward Adams
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| Autore: |
Adams Edward <1963->
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| Titolo: |
Liberal epic [[electronic resource] ] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / / Edward Adams
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| 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 | |
| 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.: | 9910790119803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Victorian literature and culture series.