LEADER 04371oam 2200733 a 450 001 9910971526003321 005 20020501112910.0 010 $a9798400631733 010 $a9786610422739 010 $a9781280422737 010 $a1280422734 010 $a9780313010934 010 $a0313010935 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400631733 035 $a(CKB)111087026966178 035 $a(OCoLC)70734315 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10023128 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000130202 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129132 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130202 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080529 035 $a(PQKB)11226892 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000821 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10023128 035 $a(OCoLC)55483867 035 $a(OCoLC)48098480 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400631733BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000821 035 $a(Perlego)4202524 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026966178 100 $a20010913e20022024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe controversialist $ean intellectual life of Goldwin Smith /$fPaul T. Phillips 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2002. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780275976118 311 08$a0275976114 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index. 327 $aCover -- The Controversialist -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 Early Life -- FROM READING TO OXFORD -- REFORM AT OXFORD -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 The Regius Professor -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 From Academic to Sage -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 Historian at Large -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 The Transatlantic Liberal -- FREEDOM AND THE REMOVAL OF PRIVILEGE -- ORDERLY PROGRESS -- A CULTURE OF PROGRESS -- ANGLO-SAXONDOM -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 Anti-Semitism -- NOTES -- Chapter 7 Into the Abyss -- NO REFUGE BUT IN TRUTH: THE PERILS OF FREETHOUGHT -- TOWARD THE LEVIATHAN -- NOTES -- Epilogue: Guesses at the Riddle of Goldwin Smith -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY MANUSCRIPT SOURCES -- PRIMARY PRINTED SOURCES -- Some Well-Known Books by Goldwin Smith -- Selected Works of Relevance by Authors Contemporary with Goldwin Smith -- SELECTED SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index -- About the Author. 330 8 $aGoldwin Smith (1823-1910) was a celebrated, transatlantic writer on current events, politics, religion, history, and literature. While he made his academic mark teaching at Oxford, Cornell, and later as a resident guru at Toronto, his facile pen earned him a far greater reputation with general readers throughout the English-speaking world. Determined to rouse concern over issues that he deemed to be important to the advancement of humanity, Smith was deemed the controversialist by the Dictionary of National Biography. A study of his life and his writings provides new insight into liberalism, anti-semitism, the role of the journalist, and other aspects of life in late 19th century North America and Britain. As a public intellectual, Goldwin Smith spoke out on a variety of issues, frequently provoking intense debate. Phillips argues that the core of Smith's thought and the driving force behind his role as a controversialist lay in his moral philosophy, which provided a sense of direction to Smith's many and sometimes disparate writings and activities. This study will also probe the serious dilemma posed by Smith's path to agnosticism in the last decades of his life. By moving to a position of virtual unbelief, Smith risked damage not only to his carefully-crafted public persona, but also to a life's work as an impassioned moralist. 606 $aCollege teachers$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aJournalists$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aJournalists$zOntario$zToronto$vBiography 607 $aToronto (Ont.)$vBiography 615 0$aCollege teachers 615 0$aJournalists 615 0$aJournalists 676 $a070/.92 676 $aB 700 $aPhillips$b Paul T.$f1942-$01813064 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971526003321 996 $aThe controversialist$94365820 997 $aUNINA