More Nineteenth Century Studies: A Group Of Honest Doubters
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A landmark work in Victorian intellectual history, More Nineteenth Century Studies: A Group of Honest Doubters chronicles the spiritual and philosophical struggles of five towering figures of the nineteenth century — Francis W. Newman, Tennyson, J.A. Froude, Mark Rutherford, and John Morley. Basil Willey, one of the twentieth century's most respected scholars of English literature and thought, presents a penetrating examination of an era defined by religious doubt, scientific upheaval, and moral searching. With scholarly rigour and elegant prose, Willey illuminates the ways in which these thinkers wrestled with the collision between faith and reason, tradition and modernity. A companion volume to his earlier Nineteenth Century Studies, this work argues that the honest doubter — the individual who refused to accept inherited beliefs uncritically — was the defining intellectual type of the Victorian age. Essential reading for students of Victorian literature, history, and the history of ideas, it remains a definitive and deeply humane account of an age in transition.
Author: Basil Willey
Format: Paperback
Published: 1956, Harper Torchbooks
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work in Victorian intellectual history, More Nineteenth Century Studies: A Group of Honest Doubters chronicles the spiritual and philosophical struggles of five towering figures of the nineteenth century — Francis W. Newman, Tennyson, J.A. Froude, Mark Rutherford, and John Morley. Basil Willey, one of the twentieth century's most respected scholars of English literature and thought, presents a penetrating examination of an era defined by religious doubt, scientific upheaval, and moral searching. With scholarly rigour and elegant prose, Willey illuminates the ways in which these thinkers wrestled with the collision between faith and reason, tradition and modernity. A companion volume to his earlier Nineteenth Century Studies, this work argues that the honest doubter — the individual who refused to accept inherited beliefs uncritically — was the defining intellectual type of the Victorian age. Essential reading for students of Victorian literature, history, and the history of ideas, it remains a definitive and deeply humane account of an age in transition.