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More nineteenth century studies : a group of honest doubters
- Title
- More nineteenth century studies : a group of honest doubters / by Basil Willey.
- Author
- Willey, Basil, 1897-1978.
- Publication
- London : Chatto & Windus, 1956.
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- Description
- 304 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The late Professor Basil Willey's important and influential inquiry into the history of religious and moral ideas in the nineteenth century has become (since its first appearance in 1949) a seminal study for all students of English literature and the history of ideas. Instead of surveying a complex nexus of ideas from a single vantage point, the author examines a shifting succession of beliefs. Religion and ethics are both the clue to those beliefs and an index of their fluctuations, and Professor Willey offers a lucid exposition and impartial evaluation of the issues raging at the heart of Victorian life: progress, original sin, enlightened self-interest and the moral imperative. Individual chapters are devoted to Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Newman, Carlyle, Bentham, Mill, Comte, George Eliot and Matthew Arnold. Professor Willey's particular achievement is to have clarified and reanimated these controversies so as to show their continuing relevance.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Geistesgeschichte 1800-1900
- Geschichte 1850-1900
- Nineteenth century
- Philosophy, Modern > History
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Religious thought > 19th century
- Philosophy > History
- Philosophy
- English literature
- Nineteenth century
- Philosophy, Modern
- Religious thought
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Philosophy, Modern > 19th century
- Religious thought > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Großbritannien
- Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Francis W. Newman: Phases of faith ; The soul ; Translating Homer ; Newman the man: later years -- ch. 2. Tennyson: Somersby ; Cambridge ; Early poems ; The two voices ; The princess: 'jewels five-words long' ; In memoriam -- ch. 3. J.A. Froude: Early life ; Shadows of the clouds ; The nemesis of faith ; History -- ch. 4. Septem contra Christum (essays and reviews, 1860): Introductory: Frederick Temple: "The education of the world" ; Rowland Williams: "Bunsen's biblical researches" ; Baden Powell: "On the study of the evidences of Christianity" ; Henry Bristow Wilson: "Séances historiques de Genève: the national church" ; C.W. Goodwin: "On the mosaic cosmogony" ; Mark Pattison: "Tendencies of religious thought in England, 1688-1750" ; Benjamin Jowett: "On the interpretation of scripture" -- How it struck some contemporaries: Frederic Harrison ; Samuel Wilberforce ; A.P. Stanley -- 'Neo-Christianity', then and now -- ch. 5. "Mark Rutherford" (William Hale White): Tanner's Lane ; Within these walls ; Wordsworth ; Apollyon ; Edward Gibbon Mardon ; M'Kay ; Spinoza ; At enmity with joy ; When hearts are ill-affined ; Holding fast with claws ; Sunset and evening star -- ch. 6. John Morley: Liberalism ; Upbringing and Oxford days ; Early writings ; French Studies: Voltaire ; Rousseau ; Diderot ; On compromise ; Morley as literary critic.
- LCCN
- 57001027
- OCLC
- ocm03092644
- 3092644
- SCSB-184507
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library