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LIBERAL EPIC
LIBERAL EPIC
Subtitle:
The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill
Book Category:
History > Europe > Great Britain
Author:
Adams, Edward
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
978081394419
Price:
USD 29.50
Publication Year:
2011

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University of Virginia Press.

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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.

 
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Choice OAT, Simon Dentith, University of Reading, Journal of British Studies