Acclaimed biographer Julia Markus has written an unprecedented and
illuminating portrait of the brilliant, tortured, and controversial
James Anthony Froude -- the quintessential Victorian, father of
modern biography, historian, diplomat, and prodigal son. J. Anthony
Froude expertly captures the roiling cultural history of a century
through one man's dynamic life. From his birth in 1818 to his death
in 1894, J. Anthony Froude embodied the issues and complexities of
his time. Through the story of his life, Markus elucidates the
major ideological issues of the nineteenth century -- sexuality,
colonialism, and the widespread challenges to religion's long-held
cultural primacy. In beautifully crafted prose, Markus reveals the
compelling life of one of the most important thinkers of the
Victorian age -- the brutality of his early education, his troubled
relationship with his father, his expulsion from Oxford, his
dramatic and dazzling literary career, his delicious political
incorrectness, his two marriages, his relationships with his
children, his friendships with such disparate luminaries as Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Cardinal Newman, his diplomatic work for Prime
Minister Disraeli, and his complex relationship with Thomas
Carlyle, his spiritual father and the subject of his most famous
biography. A. L. Rowse, historian and author, called Froude the
"last great Victorian awaiting revival." No life of the period is
more poignant, no destiny more fascinating, than that of this man
who in his books and his actions reflected the triumphs and the
errors of his society.
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