02987nam 2200661 a 450 991095600740332120200520144314.0979-88-908754-6-4979-88-9313-141-31-4696-0612-70-8078-7757-3(CKB)1000000000487667(EBL)354266(OCoLC)476176202(SSID)ssj0000132551(PQKBManifestationID)11143499(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132551(PQKBWorkID)10038423(PQKB)11219120(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245662(OCoLC)233577741(MdBmJHUP)muse28008(Au-PeEL)EBL354266(CaPaEBR)ebr10273396(CaONFJC)MIL929207(Perlego)538343(MiAaPQ)EBC354266(EXLCZ)99100000000048766720061016d2007 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrCritical Americans Victorian intellectuals and transatlantic liberal reform /Leslie ButlerChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (400 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5792-0 0-8078-3084-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-360) and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Victorian Duty, American Scholars, and National Crisis; 2. The War for the Union and the Vindication of American Democracy; 3. The Liberal High Tide and Educative Democracy; 4. Liberal Culture in a Gilded Age; 5. The Politics of Liberal Reform; 6. Global Power and the liberalism of Empire; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the 19th century, Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses how these men established a critical perspective on American racism, materialism, and jingoism in the decades between the 1850's and the 1890's while she recaptures their insistence on the ability of ordinary citizens to work toward their limitless potential as intelligent and moral human beings.LiberalismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitics and cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDemocracyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiberalismHistoryPolitics and cultureHistoryDemocracyHistory320.510973/09034Butler Leslie1969-1833915MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956007403321Critical Americans4408956UNINA