Public moralists : political thought and intellectual life in Britain, 1850-1930

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Title:

Public moralists : political thought and intellectual life in Britain, 1850-1930

Author:

Collini, Stefan, 1947-

ISBN:

9780198201731

9780198204220

Personal Author:

Collini, Stefan, 1947-

Publication Information:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Physical Description:

383 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Leading minds : the world of the Victorian intellectual -- Culture of altruism : selfishness and the decay of motive -- Idea of character : private habits and public virtues -- Their master's voice : John Stuart Mill as a public moralist -- Manly fellows : Fawcett, Stephen, and the liberal temper -- Their title to be heard : prefessionalization and its discontents -- Exclusively professional subject : the jurist as public moralist -- From dangerous partisan to national possession : John Stuart Mill in English culture 1873-1933 -- Whig interpretation of English literature : literary history and national identity.

Subject Term:

Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Attitudes -- History.

Ethicists -- Great Britain -- Attitudes -- History.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Electronic Access:

Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b9g9-aa
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/91011490-d.html

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Summary

This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of relation to an audience exhibited by social critics from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J.M. Keynes and F.R. Leavis.