This book is a study of nineteenth-century liberalism, understood as a process rather than a philosophy, policy or ideology.
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.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Introduction
From Confessional Values to Liberal Values
The Fashioning of Liberal Values in the Universities and the Professions
A Different Regime of Social Worth
Making Cultural Capital: Clubs, Societies, and New Forms of Binding Ties
Cultural Capital: From Literalism to the Edge of Certainty
Limitations: Roman Catholicism
Limitations: Nationalism
Conclusion
Sobre o autor
WILLIAM C. LUBENOW is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey. His previous books included Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914 (2010), ‘Only Connect’: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2015) and Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950 (2020), all published by the Boydell Press.
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