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

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INDEX Acton, Lord: criticism of scientific history , 169, 187, 194, 287, 290; on Fénelon, 43, 45–46 Adams, Henry: Boston historians and, 154; on Irving, 90; law of war and, 298n12; opposition to war history, 1–2, 262, 283, 285, 290; on scientific history, 179 Addison, Joseph, 142, 149–51, 153, 156, 161 Adorno, Theodor, 19, 20 Ambrose, Stephen, 290 Ammianus Marcellinus, 68, 81, 84–89 Aristotle, 54, 75, 287 Armstrong, Nancy, 11 Arnold, Matthew, 168, 187; criticism of poetic diction, 29, 242; on heroic agency, 15, 247–48, 251 Auerbach, Erich, 84, 208 Augustine, 81 Baker, Nicholson, 306n1 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 8, 34, 156 Bancroft, George, 154 Barbero, Alessandro, 93 Barlow, Joel, 12, 68, 70, 80 Baudrillard, Jean, 5–6 Beccaria, Cesare, 20 Bentham, Jeremy, 105 Bentley, Richard, 29, 68 Berlin, Isaiah: on Churchill, 256–59, 270, 286–88, 290; criticism of Buckle, 187, 193–94; liberalism of, 8–9, 169; on Tolstoy, 233 Best, Geoffrey, 4 Blackmore, Richard, 67 Blake, William, 53, 68, 70, 80 Bloch, Marc, 285–86 Boileau, 226 Bolingbroke, Lord, 60 Boot, Max, 258, 305n21 Bossu, 59, 187 Bossuet, 39, 81, 188–90 Bourke, Joanna, 5 Bowdler, Thomas, 69 Braudel, Fernand, 285, 286, 288, 290 Braudy, Leo, 293n1 Bryant, W. C., 21 Buckle, Henry: on epic vs. scientific history, 184–94, 225, 228, 290; intellectual critique of war, 106, 144, 170, 172, 196; scientific history and, 2, 169, 179, 183, 285, 287, 301n7 Burke, Edmund, 47, 75, 102; Burkean vs. Homeric sublime, 62–66, 105, 168 Burns, Robert, 232 Burrow, John, 89, 304n24 Burton, Richard, 300n2 Butler, Samuel, 53, 54, 262 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 41, 101, 214–15, 237; on cant, 104, 151, 218; on horrors of war, 47–49, 92; liberal epic and, 11, 122–31; Pope and, 27–28, 107–8 Carlisle, Janice, 144 Carlyle, Thomas: epic history and, 10–11, 36, 98, 109, 141–47, 191, 214, 239, 299n15; on Gibbon, 89, 221; on heroic agency, 14, 184, 193, 198, 209; liberal 318 INDEX Carlyle, Thomas (continued) epic and, 6, 16, 163–69; on Tennysonian epic, 49–52, 175; Thackeray and, 153–58 Carmack, John, 6 Chapman, George, 77 Charmley, John, 256 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 32, 59 Churchill, Winston, 12, 109, 151, 232, 290; epic military histories by, 251–81; Gibbon and, 10, 24, 26–28, 89; liberal epic and, 7, 222, 246–47; opposed to scientific history, 284, 286–87; reputation of, 3–4, 169, 193–94; Victorians and, 53–54 Clarendon, Lord, 116 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: criticism of Gibbon, 26, 92, 285; criticism of Pope, 29, 92, 108, 142; on poetic diction, 21, 247 Collingwood, R. G., 8, 9, 293n1, 301n7 Comte, Auguste, 183, 191 Cowper, William, 72, 112 Craddock, Patricia, 69, 285 Creasy, Edward, 49, 172; admiration for Gibbon, 205; Churchill and, 256, 258, 261–64, 266–67; on heroic vs. scienti fic history, 179–85, 187, 191, 193, 286–87, 301n7; liberal epic and, 28, 157, 275 Croce, Benedetto, 8, 293n1 Crystal Palace Exhibition, 2–3, 144, 157, 162, 170, 180, 275 Dacier, Madame, 68–71, 77–79 Dames, Nicholas, 154, 155 Darwin, Charles, 179, 193, 232 Defoe, Daniel, 35, 36, 128 de Maistre, Joseph, 287, 288 Dentith, Simon, 7, 8, 10 Derby, Lord, 196 Descartes, René, 193 Diamond, Jared, 187 Dickens, Charles: Buckle and, 188; Gibbon and, 89; reputation of, 141, 143, 155–56, 158, 180; rivalry with Thackeray, 145, 147 Doom, 7, 57, 291 Dryden, John, 6, 72, 150; influence on Gibbon, 83, 87; liberal epic and, 24–27, 30–34, 294n17; poetic diction and, 10, 24–27; Pope and, 59, 77; Scott and, 97; Southey and, 109–10, 112 Dunant, Henri, 245 Duncan, Ian, 12, 13, 141 Dwight, Timothy, 40 Eliot, George: Buckle and, 192; on heroic agency in domestic epic, 13–16, 169, 251; pastoral and epic in, 225–26 Eliot, T. S., 270 epic, working definition of, 10–11, 16–17, 19. See also Homer Fagles, Robert, 78, 87 Fénelon, F., 19, 56, 126, 295n12; Buckle on, 185–86, 188–90; Dryden and, 30–37; Keynes and, 249; law of war and, 24–25, 295n23; liberalism and, 66, 106, 279, 295n23; neoclassicism and, 38–42; Romantics and, 43–49, 124, 128; transformation of Homer and Vergil, 6, 59, 61–62, 69, 72, 115, 151, 275; Victorians and, 49–54, 227 Ferguson, Niall, 2, 284, 290 Fielding, Henry, 50, 142, 146, 147, 148 Flaubert, Gustave, 17, 88, 89, 297n19 Foucault, Michel, 19, 20, 295n15...