Del 14 i serien Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

Sincere and Teachable Heart

Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-11-14
Mått155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt581 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieScientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
Antal sidor277
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004263369

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Introduction Part I The Meaning and Function of Patience and HumilityChapter oneCommon Things to Speak of: the Meaning of Patience and Humility in the Nineteenth-Century British ImaginationChapter twoFrom Virtue to Duty: The Victorian Application of Patience and Humility to Social and Intellectual LifePart II The Eighteenth CenturyChapter threeCharacter and Morality in Eighteenth-Century British ThoughtChapter fourThe Utility of VirtueChapter fivePatience, Utility and Revolution Part III OxfordChapter sixOxford and the Age of Reform Chapter sevenThe Oxford Movement: Faith and Obedience in a Tumultuous and Shifting WorldChapter eightFaith and Reason in Newman’s University SermonsChapter nineThe Hampden Affair: Divergent Paths out of a Spiritual WildernessChapter tenThomas Arnold Confronts the “Oxford Malignants” Chapter elevenThe Tamworth Letters: Virtue and Science Chapter twelveTract 90 and the Trial of Patience in the Church of EnglandBibliography