This book is about the development in nineteenth-century England of
the idea of a secular intellectual elite - the 'clerisy'. These
intellectuals wanted to free themselves from the pressures of
material conditioning and be in touch with transcendent values.
This elite would be capable of seeing and valuing the best in the
national cultural heritage and raising the standard of intellectual
life. Dr Knights considers five major writers who shared this
concern: Coleridge, Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, J. S. Mill and J. H.
Newman. He finds important similarities, arising out of shared
problems and assumptions. The status of literary culture was still
such that to many of its practitioners a 'clerisy' offered the only
hope of reversing a trend towards cultural and social
disintegration. Dr Knights goes on to examine the influence of the
idea upon the reorganisation of university curricula in the latter
part of the century.
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