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The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914 - Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life (Paperback)
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The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914 - Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life (Paperback)
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This book offers a highly engaging history of the world's most
famous secret society, the Cambridge 'Apostles', based upon the
lives, careers and correspondence of the 255 Apostles elected to
the Cambridge Conversazione Society between 1820 and 1914. It
examines the way in which the Apostles recruited their membership,
the Society's discussions and its intellectual preoccupations. From
its pages emerge such figures as F. D. Maurice, John Sterling, John
Mitchell Kemble, Richard Trench, Fenton Hort, James Clerk Maxwell,
Henry Sidgwick, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard
Keynes. The careers of these and many other leading Apostles are
traced, through parliament, government, letters, and in public
school and university reform. The book also makes an important
contribution in discussing the role of liberalism, imagination and
friendship at the intersection of the life of learning and public
life. This is a major contribution to the intellectual and social
history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to the
history of the University of Cambridge. It demonstrates in
impressive depth just how and why the Apostles forged original
themes in modern intellectual life.
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