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Collini, Stefan,

Public Moralists : political thought and intellectual life in Britain, 1850-1930 / Stefan Collini - New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. - 383 pages :23 cm

Leading minds : the world of the Victorian intellectual --
Culture of altruism : selfishness and the decay of motive --
Idea of character : private habits and public virtues --
Their master's voice : John Stuart Mill as a public moralist --
Manly fellows : Fawcett, Stephen, and the liberal temper --
Their title to be heard : prefessionalization and its discontents --
Exclusively professional subject : the jurist as public moralist --
From dangerous partisan to national possession : John Stuart Mill in English culture 1873-1933 --
Whig interpretation of English literature : literary history and national identity.

This volume analyses the moral sensibilities and assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early 20th-century Britain, focusing on the role as public moralists of

ISBN: 9780198204220

Publisher. No.: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political science -- Great Britain
Intellectual life.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Intellectuals -- Attitudes.

Dewey Class. No.: 941.08 COL