Liberal epic the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Adams, Edward, 1963-
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- Victorian literature and culture series
- 出版： Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press
- 叢書名： Victorian literature and culture series
- 主題： Literature and history--Great Britain--History. , Liberalism--Great Britain--History. , Liberalism in literature , War in literature , History in literature , Epic literature, English--History and criticism
- ISBN： 9780813931500 (electronic bk.) 、 0813931509 (electronic bk.) 、 9780813931456 (hbk.) 、 0813931452 (hbk.)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 handof liberal epic.
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- 系統號： 005103064 | 機讀編目格式
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In Liberal Epic, 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. Victorian Literature and Culture Series