000438321 000__ 03754cam\a2200493\a\4500 000438321 001__ 438321 000438321 005__ 20210513152840.0 000438321 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000438321 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000438321 008__ 120530s2011\\\\vau\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000438321 010__ $$z 2011005590 000438321 019__ $$a794491684$$a961546925$$a962602861 000438321 020__ $$a9780813931500$$q(electronic book) 000438321 020__ $$z9780813931456 000438321 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn784960317 000438321 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10554881 000438321 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444016 000438321 035__ $$a438321 000438321 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$cCaPaEBR 000438321 043__ $$ae-uk-ui 000438321 05014 $$aPR468.H57$$bA33 2011eb 000438321 08204 $$a809/.9359$$222 000438321 1001_ $$aAdams, Edward,$$d1963- 000438321 24510 $$aLiberal epic$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill /$$cEdward Adams. 000438321 260__ $$aCharlottesville :$$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$$c2011. 000438321 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 322 p.) 000438321 4901_ $$aVictorian literature and culture series 000438321 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000438321 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- 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. 000438321 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000438321 520__ $$aEdward Adams examines the liberal imagination's centuries-long dependence on contradictory, and mutually constitutive, attitudes toward violent domination. Adams centers his ambitious analysis on a series of major epic poems, histories, and historical novels, including Dryden's Aeneid, Pope's Iliad, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Byron's Don Juan, Scott's Life of Napoleon, Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula, Macaulay's History of England, Hardy's Dynasts, and Churchill's military histories-works that rank among the most important publishing events of the past three centuries yet that have seldom received critical attention relative to their importance. In recovering these neglected works and gathering them together as part of a self-conscious literary tradition here defined as liberal epic, Adams provides an archaeology that sheds light on contemporary issues such as the relation of liberalism to war, the tactics for sanitizing heroism, and the appeal of violence to supposedly humane readers. 000438321 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000438321 650_0 $$aEpic literature, English$$xHistory and criticism. 000438321 650_0 $$aHistory in literature. 000438321 650_0 $$aWar in literature. 000438321 650_0 $$aLiberalism in literature. 000438321 650_0 $$aLiberalism$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory. 000438321 650_0 $$aLiterature and history$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory. 000438321 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aAdams, Edward, 1963-$$tLiberal epic.$$dCharlotesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011$$z9780813931456$$w(DLC) 2011005590$$w(OCoLC)702168888 000438321 830_0 $$aVictorian literature and culture series. 000438321 8520_ $$bacq 000438321 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000438321 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 000438321 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3444016$$zOnline Access 000438321 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3444016$$zOnline Access 000438321 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:438321$$pGLOBAL_SET 000438321 980__ $$aEBOOK$$aEBOOK 000438321 980__ $$aBIB 000438321 982__ $$aEbook 000438321 983__ $$aOnline