Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N809.9359/1
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English
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x, 322 p. ; 25 cm.
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 --...
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
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Virginia
Date Published
2011.
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Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.
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Victorian literature and culture series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N809.9359/1
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74VvKNb4ePWd
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0813931509 (e-book)
9780813931456 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813931452 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813931500 (e-book)
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809.9359
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991007879449702626
