A sincere and teachable heart : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 / / by Richard Bellon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463626003321
• Autore: Bellon Richard (Historian)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-04-26335-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Collana: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, , 2352-1325 ; ; Volume 14
• Disciplina: 941.07
• Soggetti: Self-denial - Social aspects - Great Britain - History; Virtue - Social aspects - Great Britain - History; Patience - Social aspects - Great Britain - History; Humility - Social aspects - Great Britain - History; Ethics - Great Britain - History; Oxford movement - History; Electronic books.; Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century; Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century; Great Britain Moral conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Common Things to Speak of: The Meaning of Patience and Humility in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination -- From Virtue to Duty: The Victorian Application of Patience and Humility to Social and Intellectual Life -- Character and Morality in Eighteenth-Century British Thought -- The Utility of Virtue -- Patience, Utility and Revolution -- Oxford and the Age of Reform -- The Oxford Movement: Faith and Obedience in a Tumultuous and Shifting World -- Faith and Reason in Newman’s University Sermons -- The Hampden Affair: Divergent Paths out of a Spiritual Wilderness -- Thomas Arnold Confronts the “Oxford Malignants” -- The Tamworth Letters: Virtue and Science -- Tract 90 and the Trial of Patience in the Church of England -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.