Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Originally published in 1999. James Turner's biography offers the first modern account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities—historicism and culture—and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 32 mm
Vikt:699 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:546
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421435961

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James Turner is the Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities at the University of Notre Dame and the director of the Erasmus Institute. His books include Without God, Without Creed and Reckoning with the Beast also available from Johns Hopkins.

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James Turner offers us a superbly crafted and absorbing biography of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century American culture. In this impressive book, Turner dusts off what might seem a stuffy subject to reveal a cultural adventure.—Anne C. Rose, Journal of American History

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsPrologue. The New England ClerisyChapter 1. Shady Hill, 1786-1842Chapter 2. Cambridge and Boston, 1842-1851Chapter 3. The World, 1849-1851Chapter 4. A Merchant in the Unmaking, 1851-1855Chapter 5. Adrift, 1855-1857Chapter 6. A Literary Invalid, 1857-1861Chapter 7. Toward "A Science of Ideal Politics," 1861-1865Chapter 8. The North American, the Nation, and the Nation, 1865-1868Chapter 9. Europe and Erudition, 1868-1872InterludeChapter 10. Beginning AgainChapter 11. Fresh Foundations of Learning, 1878-1882Chapter 12. Olympus Ascended, 1882-1886Chapter 13. Years that Bring the Philologic Mind, 1886-1891Chapter 14. To Make Democracy Safe for the World, 1891-1895Chapter 15. The Invention of Western Civilization, 1895-1898Chapter 16. Shady Hill Again, 1898-1908IllustrationsNotesSources CitedThe Published Writings of Charles Eliot NortonIndex