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Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Dr. William C Lubenow
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Description for Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Hardback. In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 32. Weight in Grams: 716.
In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual. In the early modern period the subject of knowledge was dogma. Early modern knowledge was often tied to confessional tests and state-building. One road to modernity could be read as escape from institutional and confessional restraints to the freedom of reason. A second one could be read as escape to networks of association and belonging. In the nineteenth century, the latter space was filled in Britain by learned societies (within ... Read more
In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual. In the early modern period the subject of knowledge was dogma. Early modern knowledge was often tied to confessional tests and state-building. One road to modernity could be read as escape from institutional and confessional restraints to the freedom of reason. A second one could be read as escape to networks of association and belonging. In the nineteenth century, the latter space was filled in Britain by learned societies (within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270460
SKU
V9781783270460
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About Dr. William C Lubenow
WILLIAM C. LUBENOW is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey. His previous books included Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914 (2010), "Only Connect": Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2015) and Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950 (2020), all published by the Boydell Press.
Reviews for Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Fills huge gaps in our knowledge of the activities and networks of the opinion-formers of the nineteenth century and will inspire future historians to take the development of the public intellectual far more seriously than hitherto.
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[A] magisterial volume. [This] thought-provoking study of the history of ideas will be of value to historians of ... Read more
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY
[A] magisterial volume. [This] thought-provoking study of the history of ideas will be of value to historians of ... Read more