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The Controversialist An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith

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Paul T. Phillips

Book Code: C7611

ISBN: 0-275-97611-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97611-8

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216 pages, N/A

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/28/2002

List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Paul T. Mitchell provides a portrait of the irascible Victorian social and political critic Goldwin Smith.
—Albion Fall 2003

Description: Goldwin 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Early Life
Regius Professor
From Academic to Sage
Historian at Large
The Transatlantic Liberal
Anti-Semitism
Into the Abyss
Epilogue: Guesses at the Riddle of Goldwin Smith
Sources

LC Card Number: 2001051146

LCC Class: CT788

Dewey Class: 070


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