Stuart Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester. He has written widely on British and French intellectual history and political thought, chiefly of the nineteenth century. His books include The French State in Question (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Victorian Political Thought (Palgrave, 2000), and Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He also edited Comte's Early Political Writings for the Cambridge Texts in Political Thought series (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He is currently Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (2008–9).

'H. S. Jones wrote the excellent entry on Mark Pattison for the New Dictionary of National Biography, and now he has written a lengthier study not on what he did but what he thought. … Jones shows that the over-simplified picture of Pattison … has to be revised …' Oxford Magazine

• Introduction: The invention of the don; Part I. Lives: 1. 'No History but a Mental History'; 2. 'Into the abysses, or no one knows where'; 3. Memoirs and memories; Part II. Ideas: 4. Manliness and good learning; 5. The endowment of learning; 6. The history of ideas as self-culture; Epilogue: The don as intellectual?

Stuart Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester. He has written widely on British and French intellectual history and political thought, chiefly of the nineteenth century. His books include The French State in Question (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Victorian Political Thought (Palgrave, 2000), and Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He also edited Comte's Early Political Writings for the Cambridge Texts in Political Thought series (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He is currently Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (2008–9).

'H. S. Jones wrote the excellent entry on Mark Pattison for the New Dictionary of National Biography, and now he has written a lengthier study not on what he did but what he thought. … Jones shows that the over-simplified picture of Pattison … has to be revised …' Oxford Magazine

• Introduction: The invention of the don; Part I. Lives: 1. 'No History but a Mental History'; 2. 'Into the abysses, or no one knows where'; 3. Memoirs and memories; Part II. Ideas: 4. Manliness and good learning; 5. The endowment of learning; 6. The history of ideas as self-culture; Epilogue: The don as intellectual?