TY - BOOK AU - Adams,Edward TI - Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill T2 - Victorian Literature and Culture Series SN - 9780813931500 AV - PR468.H57A33 2011 U1 - 809/.9359 PY - 2011/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Epic literature, English--History and criticism KW - History in literature KW - War in literature KW - Liberalism in literature KW - Liberalism--Great Britain--History KW - Literature and history--Great Britain--History KW - Electronic books N2 - In recovering these neglected works and gathering them together as part of a self-conscious literary tradition here defined as liberal epic, Adams provides an archaeology that sheds light on contemporary issues such as the relation of liberalism to war, the tactics for sanitizing heroism, and the appeal of violence to supposedly humane readers. Victorian Literature and Culture Series UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3444016 ER -