Read Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain

William C. Lubenow

4.9/5 (31262 ratings)

Description: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 or outside universities) or even clubs. It was a movement toward a different kind of method and a different kind of learning. 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. The history of cognition in nineteenth-century Britain became a history of various intellectual enclaves and the people who occupied them. This book examines the nature of knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain and the role of learned societies, clubs and coteries in its formation, organization and dissolution. Drawing on numerous, unpublished, private papers and manuscripts, it looks predominantly at societies in the metropolitan centres of London, Oxford and Cambridge. It also takes up the relation of British styles of learning, in contrast to Continental forms, which aimed to produce people of culture and character suited for positions of public authority. While the British owed much to German exemplars, a tension in these intellectual exchanges remained, magnified by the Great War. The study concludes by comparing British cognitive niches with similar social formations in Germany, France and the United States. WILLIAM C. LUBENOW is Distinguished Professor of History at Stockton College of New Jersey. His previous books include Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain (Boydell, 2010), The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914 (1998) and Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis (1988). He has been president of the North American Conference on British Studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain. To get started finding Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1783270462

Description: 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 or outside universities) or even clubs. It was a movement toward a different kind of method and a different kind of learning. 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. The history of cognition in nineteenth-century Britain became a history of various intellectual enclaves and the people who occupied them. This book examines the nature of knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain and the role of learned societies, clubs and coteries in its formation, organization and dissolution. Drawing on numerous, unpublished, private papers and manuscripts, it looks predominantly at societies in the metropolitan centres of London, Oxford and Cambridge. It also takes up the relation of British styles of learning, in contrast to Continental forms, which aimed to produce people of culture and character suited for positions of public authority. While the British owed much to German exemplars, a tension in these intellectual exchanges remained, magnified by the Great War. The study concludes by comparing British cognitive niches with similar social formations in Germany, France and the United States. WILLIAM C. LUBENOW is Distinguished Professor of History at Stockton College of New Jersey. His previous books include Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain (Boydell, 2010), The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914 (1998) and Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis (1988). He has been president of the North American Conference on British Studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain. To get started finding Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain

More Books

Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh by William C. Lubenow (2010-07-23)

Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh by William C. Lubenow (2010-07-23)

Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by William C. Lubenow (2015-10-15)

Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by William C. Lubenow (2015-10-15)

Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh

Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh

The Cambridge Apostles, 1820–1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life

The Cambridge Apostles, 1820–1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life

Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: The British House of Commons in 1886

Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: The British House of Commons in 1886

Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950: Institutions, Ideas and Intellectual Experience

Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950: Institutions, Ideas and Intellectual Experience

Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

Politics of Government Growth: Early Victorian Attitudes Towards State Intervention, 1833-1848

Politics of Government Growth: Early Victorian Attitudes Towards State Intervention, 1833-1848

Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950

Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950