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Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill
- Title
- Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
- Author
- Adams, Edward, 1963-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 11-3509 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 322 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Uniform Title
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-3509
- ISBN
- 9780813931456 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813931452 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813931500 (e-book)
- 0813931509 (e-book)
- LCCN
- 2011005590
- OCLC
- YBP 2011005590
- Author
- Adams, Edward, 1963-
- Title
- Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- Series
- Victorian literature and culture seriesVictorian literature and culture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-3509