Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon by Edward Adams
By Edward Adams
In Liberal Epic, Edward Adams examines the liberal
imagination’s centuries-long dependence on contradictory, and at the same time constitutive,
attitudes towards violent domination. Adams facilities his bold research on a chain of major
epic poems, histories, and historic novels, together with Dryden’s
Aeneid, Pope’s Iliad, Gibbon’s
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Byron’s Don
Juan, Scott’s Life of Napoleon, Napier’s
History of the battle within the Peninsula, Macaulay’s History of
England, Hardy’s Dynasts, and Churchill’s military
histories—works that rank one of the most crucial publishing occasions of the earlier 3 centuries
but that experience seldom obtained severe consciousness relative to their significance. In recovering
those ignored works and accumulating them jointly as a part of a self-conscious literary tradition
right here outlined as liberal epic, Adams presents an archaeology that sheds gentle on contemporary
concerns akin to the relation of liberalism to battle, the strategies for sanitizing heroism, and the
allure of violence to supposedly humane readers.
Victorian
Literature and tradition Series
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