Liberal epic [[electronic resource] ] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / / Edward Adams |
Autore | Adams Edward <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.9359 |
Collana | Victorian literature and culture series |
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. |
ISBN |
1-280-49039-X
9786613585622 0-8139-3150-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461668403321 |
Adams Edward <1963-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Liberal epic [[electronic resource] ] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / / Edward Adams |
Autore | Adams Edward <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.9359 |
Collana | Victorian literature and culture series |
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 |
ISBN |
1-280-49039-X
9786613585622 0-8139-3150-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790119803321 |
Adams Edward <1963-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / / Edward Adams |
Autore | Adams Edward <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.9359 |
Collana | Victorian literature and culture series |
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 |
ISBN |
1-280-49039-X
9786613585622 0-8139-3150-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818437303321 |
Adams Edward <1963-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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