Liberal epic the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill /
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2011.
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| Serier: | Victorian literature and culture series.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.