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

by Edward Adams

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813934419
• ISBN13: 9780813934419
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher