Making History
Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics
Published on 15. October 2015
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-19-726587-1 (ISBN)
Description
'History is past politics, politics is present history.' Thus observed Edward Augustus Freeman, 19th-century historian and public intellectual. He was an idiosyncratic and imaginative thinker who saw past and present as interwoven and had a way of collapsing barriers of time - a gift for making the reader feel part of history, rather than merely its student.
Freeman's interests ranged widely beyond history, however, and this volume provides a biographical as well as intellectual survey of his activities. Thus chapters intersect with historical episodes such as Tractarianism, Liberal Anglicanism and the Gothic Revival, cutting across the divides that traditionally separate architectural, political, church and imperial history. New influences and nemeses emerge from this consideration of the 1830s to 1850s, providing context and added depth to the familiar view of the mature Freeman: to his historical writing as well as to the personal feuds (e.g. with Froude) for which he was equally known.
This book fills a gap in the intellectual history of Victorian Britain by providing the first comprehensive, scholarly account of one of its most articulate and outspoken public intellectuals. More broadly, too, Freeman provides a historical context for current debates on multi-culturalism, race and national identity.
Freeman's interests ranged widely beyond history, however, and this volume provides a biographical as well as intellectual survey of his activities. Thus chapters intersect with historical episodes such as Tractarianism, Liberal Anglicanism and the Gothic Revival, cutting across the divides that traditionally separate architectural, political, church and imperial history. New influences and nemeses emerge from this consideration of the 1830s to 1850s, providing context and added depth to the familiar view of the mature Freeman: to his historical writing as well as to the personal feuds (e.g. with Froude) for which he was equally known.
This book fills a gap in the intellectual history of Victorian Britain by providing the first comprehensive, scholarly account of one of its most articulate and outspoken public intellectuals. More broadly, too, Freeman provides a historical context for current debates on multi-culturalism, race and national identity.
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[an] entertaining and illuminating volume of essays * Michael Hall, The Victorian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
4 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726587-1 (9780197265871)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
I Introduction
1: G. A. Bremner and Jonathan Conlin: 1066 And All That: E. A. Freeman and the Importance of Being Memorable
II Faith in History
2: James Kirby: From Tractarian to Democrat: the Intellectual Formation of E. A. Freeman
3: Colm O'Siochru: 'Edward Semper Augustus': Freeman on Rome, the Papacy, and the Unity of History
4: Michael Ledger-Lomas: An Erastian Descent: History and Establishment in the Thought of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and E.A. Freeman
III Travelling through Time
5: William Aird: 'Seeing Things With Our Own Eyes': E. A. Freeman's Historical Travels
6: Jonathan Conlin: The Consolations of Amero-Teutonism: E. A. Freeman's Tour of the United States, 1881-2
7: William Kelley: Past History and Present Politics: E. A. Freeman and the Eastern Question
IV The Fabric of History
8: Chris Miele: E. A. Freeman and the Culture of Gothic Revival
9: Christine Dade-Robertson: Architecture as Evidence: E. A. Freeman and Harold's Church
10: G.A. Bremner: E. A. Freeman and G. G. Scott: An Episode in the Influence of Ideas
V Race and Empire
11: Theodore Koditschek: A Liberal Descent? E.A. Freeman's Invention of Racial Traditions
12: Duncan Bell: Alter Orbis: E. A. Freeman on Empire and Racial Destiny
VI The Science of History
13: Judith Green: E. A. Freeman and his History of the Norman Conquest
14: Ian Hesketh: Fanatical Hatred or Brotherly Love? Rethinking E. A. Freeman's Feud with J. A. Froude
15: Herman Paul: Habits of Thought and Judgement: E. A. Freeman on Historical Methods
VII Conclusion
16: H. S. Jones: Historical Mindedness and the World at Large: E. A. Freeman as Public Intellectual
1: G. A. Bremner and Jonathan Conlin: 1066 And All That: E. A. Freeman and the Importance of Being Memorable
II Faith in History
2: James Kirby: From Tractarian to Democrat: the Intellectual Formation of E. A. Freeman
3: Colm O'Siochru: 'Edward Semper Augustus': Freeman on Rome, the Papacy, and the Unity of History
4: Michael Ledger-Lomas: An Erastian Descent: History and Establishment in the Thought of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and E.A. Freeman
III Travelling through Time
5: William Aird: 'Seeing Things With Our Own Eyes': E. A. Freeman's Historical Travels
6: Jonathan Conlin: The Consolations of Amero-Teutonism: E. A. Freeman's Tour of the United States, 1881-2
7: William Kelley: Past History and Present Politics: E. A. Freeman and the Eastern Question
IV The Fabric of History
8: Chris Miele: E. A. Freeman and the Culture of Gothic Revival
9: Christine Dade-Robertson: Architecture as Evidence: E. A. Freeman and Harold's Church
10: G.A. Bremner: E. A. Freeman and G. G. Scott: An Episode in the Influence of Ideas
V Race and Empire
11: Theodore Koditschek: A Liberal Descent? E.A. Freeman's Invention of Racial Traditions
12: Duncan Bell: Alter Orbis: E. A. Freeman on Empire and Racial Destiny
VI The Science of History
13: Judith Green: E. A. Freeman and his History of the Norman Conquest
14: Ian Hesketh: Fanatical Hatred or Brotherly Love? Rethinking E. A. Freeman's Feud with J. A. Froude
15: Herman Paul: Habits of Thought and Judgement: E. A. Freeman on Historical Methods
VII Conclusion
16: H. S. Jones: Historical Mindedness and the World at Large: E. A. Freeman as Public Intellectual