Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh
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 ofThe Politics of Government Growth, Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis, and the Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914.
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Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh
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 ofThe Politics of Government Growth, Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis, and the Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914.
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Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh

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

by William C Lubenow
Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh

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

by William C Lubenow

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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 ofThe Politics of Government Growth, Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis, and the Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781843835592
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 09/16/2010
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Abbreviations viii

Introduction 1

1 From Confessional Values to Liberal Values 9

2 The Fashioning of Liberal Values in the Universities and the Professions 29

3 A Different Regime of Social Worth 57

4 Making Cultural Capital: Clubs, Societies, and New Forms of Binding Ties 91

5 Cultural Capital: From Literalism to the Edge of Certainty 127

6 Limitations: Roman Catholicism 155

7 Limitations: Nationalism 185

Conclusion 217

Bibliography 223

Index 247

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