Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The ethical-aesthetic challenge to epic: Pope, Gibbon, and Scott
  • Romantic liberal epic: Southey, Byron, and Napier
  • Epic history, the novel, and war in the 1850s: Thackeray, MaCaulay, and Carlyle
  • Utilitarianism and the intellectual critique of war: Mill, Creasy, and Buckle
  • Popeian strategies in primitive and modern war epic: Morris, Kinglake, and high Victorian liberal epic
  • Liberal epic before the Great War: Hardy, Trevelyan, Tolstoy, and Keynes
  • Conclusion. from liberal epic to epic liberalism: Churchill and Wedgwood
  • Epilogue. the warm and visible hand of liberal epic.