James Anthony Froude
An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2014
- ISBN 9780198726531
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages518 pages
- Size 234x161x28 mm
- Weight 786 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
James Anthony Froude is among the most frequently cited but gravely misunderstood figures in Victorian intellectual life. This is the first coherent survey of Froude's intellectual life from his early days as an Oxford enfant terrible to his final years as a pillar of the establishment and unapologetic reactionary.
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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'.
Brady is to be commended for bringing such conceptual unity and clarity to Froude's very complex and contradictory set of writings, from the fictional and confessional to the historical and religious, from the political and the personal to the autobiographical and biographical.
Table of Contents:
Froude's Voices
Shadows of the Froudes, 1818-36
Independence: Oxford and Ireland, 1836-42
Newman, St Neot, and St Patrick, 1843-46
Experiments: Critical and Fictional 1845-49
Road to Recovery: From Philosophy to History: 1849-56
The Promise of England's Past: Writing the History of England, 1854-70
The Problems of England's Present: Editing Fraser's, Changing voices, 1860-74
The Challenge of England's future: Ireland, 1862-77
The Challenge of England's Future: South Africa and Bulgaria, 1874-80
Heroes and Historical Change in the Modern and Ancient Worlds, 1871-80
Writing the (Auto)Biography of Carlyle, 1876- 84
Educating Carlyle's Orphans: Space, 1884-88
Educating Carlyle's Orphans: Time, 1889-94
Sincerity, prophecy, responsibility
