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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787904503321
• 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; 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.

Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature / / by B. Bennett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965401503321
• Autore: Bennett Bridget
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• ISBN: 9786611363482; 9781281363480; 1281363480; 9780230604865; 0230604862
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9384; 810/.9384
• Soggetti: America - History; Literature; America - Literatures; Literature, Modern - 19th century; Religion; History, Modern; History of the Americas; North American Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Modern History
• 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: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Apparitional Past; Chapter 1 Crossing Over: The Spiritualist Atlantic; Chapter 2 Revolutionary Spirits: The Persistence of the Occult; Chapter 3 Sacred Theatres: The Spiritist Performances of Shakerism in the 1830's and 1840's; Chapter 4 Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of Katie King; Chapter 5 "There Is No Death": Spiritualism and the Civil War; Conclusion: The Afterlife of Spiritualism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.