Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh - Hardcover

Lubenow, Dr. William C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843835592 ISBN 13: 9781843835592

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2010

Synopsis

Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain shows how liberal values reconstructed public space in Britain after the repeal of the Test and Corporations Acts (1828) and the passage of Catholic emancipation (1829). It traces the century-long process against subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles. It examines the emergence of the intellectual authority of the universities and the social authority of the professions. It shows how these changes gave different political and social opportunities for new families such as the Bensons, the Venns, the Stracheys and the Trevelyans. When the social moorings of the confessional state diminished new forms of association emerged to devise and promote liberal values as a distinctive form of cultural capital. This cultural capital - antique and modern letters, mathematics - filled the public sphere and provided the materials for intellectual change. The final chapters on Roman Catholicism and nationalism reveal the fragilities of this public culture. WILLIAM C. LUBENOW is Distinguished Professor of History at Stockton College, New Jersey. He is the author of The Politics of Government Growth, Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis, and the Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914.

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About the Author:

WILLIAM C. LUBENOW is Professor of History at Stockton College, New Jersey. He is the author of The Politics of Government Growth, Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis, and the Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914.

Review:

Deeply researched and gracefully written. (A) rich and resonant study. VICTORIAN STUDIES REVIEW Makes an important contribution to the cultural history of British liberalism. (...) The scope and range of this book are remarkable. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY An affectionate, broad portrayal of the world of liberal sensibilities which sees intellectual engagements as wide, expansive and drawing in many more interlocutors and preoccupations than a focus on texts in political theory would allow. A strong biographical element predominates, drawn from extensive research in private papers. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW This rich book makes real contributions to our understanding of the transitional nature of these intellectual and publicly minded elites. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIESThis book will add much to our understanding of the nineteenth-century British intellectual world. JOURNAL OF LIBERAL HISTORY While using a wealth of secondary literature, including many essays and review articles in literary weeklies and monthlies, William Lubenow charts new and important territory. (A) rich and tightly argued book. REVIEWS IN HISTORY

About this edition

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1843835592
• ISBN 13: 9781843835592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260