Liberal epic [electronic resource] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
Adams, Edward, 1963-
2011
PR468.H57 A33 2011eb
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Title Liberal epic [electronic resource] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
Author Adams, Edward, 1963-
ISBN 9780813931500 (electronic book)
9780813931456
Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 322 p.)
Call Number PR468.H57 A33 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.9359
Summary Edward 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Victorian literature and culture series.
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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.

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