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James Anthony Froude - An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet (Paperback)
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James Anthony Froude - An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet (Paperback)
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James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced
and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals. Known to
intellectual historians as the author of a monumental History of
England in the sixteenth century and as a key exponent of Victorian
religious doubt, he is also frequently referenced as the author of
a series of scandalously provocative novels and of a hugely
controversial biography of Thomas Carlyle. Historians of the
British Empire and of Ireland have frequently been compelled to
address his sometimes outrageous (but often representative)
historical writings. Scholars of mid-Victorian politics have no
less often turned to Froude as a typical representative of
Victorian fears of democracy, while more recently students of
political thought have identified him as an early representative of
a new form of Commonwealth civic republicanism. Yet for all that
Froude remains a strangely marginalised, fragmented, and neglected
figure. Ciaran Brady now addresses this remarkable gap. Based on a
thorough critical examination of all of Froude's published works -
many of which have been discovered and identified here for the
first time - and supplemented by intensive research into Froude's
private and widely scattered manuscript materials, he offers the
first sustained study of Froude's life and thought. Against the
common assumption that Froude's life can be divided along simple
lines - the sometime enfant terrible who aged into a respectable
man of letters - he argues that there was a deeper coherence
underlying everything he wrote from the scandalous productions of
the 1840s to the authoritative university lectures of the 1890s. In
addition to providing a study of a major but neglected nineteenth
century intellectual, Brady offers a critical analysis of the
impulses, the aspirations, and the unquestioned assumptions
underlying the Romantic project of personal renovation, and an
alternative view of that unique phenomenon known as 'the Victorian
sage'.
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