Faithful Victorian: William Thomas Thornton, 1813-1880
This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a biographer, an essayist, an imperial mandarin, and a dutiful family man. Thornton joined the East India Company in the mid-1830s, rising to become Secretary of the India Office’s Department of Public Works. This study uses Thornton’s letters and other recently-discovered primary material to provide a fascinating account that returns his compelling life to the center of nineteenth-century British intellectual thought.
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Faithful Victorian: William Thomas Thornton, 1813-1880
This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a biographer, an essayist, an imperial mandarin, and a dutiful family man. Thornton joined the East India Company in the mid-1830s, rising to become Secretary of the India Office’s Department of Public Works. This study uses Thornton’s letters and other recently-discovered primary material to provide a fascinating account that returns his compelling life to the center of nineteenth-century British intellectual thought.
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ISBN-13: | 9781137590862 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
Publication date: | 07/22/2016 |
Series: | Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Series |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2016 |
Pages: | 296 |
Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d) |
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