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Critical Americans - Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (Paperback, New edition)
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Critical Americans - Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (Paperback, New edition)
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In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the
second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a
group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers
who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive
and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses how these men established a
critical perspective on American racism, materialism, and jingoism
while she recaptures their insistence on the ability of ordinary
citizens to work toward their limitless potential as intelligent
and moral human beings. At the core of Butler's study are the
writers George William Curtis, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James
Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, a quartet of friends who
would together define the humane liberalism of America's late
Victorian middle class. In creative engagement with such British
intellectuals as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold,
and Goldwin Smith, these ""critical Americans"" articulated
political ideals and cultural standards to suit the burgeoning mass
democracy the Civil War had created. This transatlantic framework
informed their notions of educative citizenship, print-based
democratic politics, critically informed cultural dissemination,
and a temperate, deliberative foreign policy. Butler argues that a
careful reexamination of these strands of late nineteenth-century
liberalism can help enrich a revitalized liberal tradition at the
outset of the twenty-first century.
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