
LIBERAL EPIC |
Subtitle:
The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill
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Book Category:
History > Europe > Great Britain
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Author:
Adams, Edward
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 13:
978081394419
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Price:
USD 29.50
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Publication Year:
2011
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Publisher Info
University of Virginia Press. InquiryIn 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.
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Book Review and Awards
Choice OAT, Simon Dentith, University of Reading, Journal of British Studies