Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill

Contents

CONTENTS acknowledgments ix prologue 1 introduction 19 ONE the ethical-aesthetic challenge to epic 59 pope, gibbon, and scott TWO romantic liberal epic 104 southey, byron, and napier THREE epic history, the novel, and war in the 1850s 141 thackeray, macaulay, and carlyle FOUR utilitarianism and the intellectual critique of war 170 mill, creasy, and buckle FIVE popeian strategies in primitive and modern war epic 195 morris, kinglake, and high victorian liberal epic SIX liberal epic before the great war 220 hardy, trevelyan, tolstoy, and keynes viii CONTENTS SEVEN from liberal epic to epic liberalism 253 churchill and wedgwood epilogue 283 the warm and visible hand of liberal epic notes 293 works cited 307 index 317 ...