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Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform
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Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Butler, Leslie

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  • Title Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform
  • Author Butler, Leslie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Date 2007-04-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ012LVE_ns
  • ISBN 9780807857922 / 0807857920
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.15 x 6.28 x 0.96 in (23.24 x 15.95 x 2.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Liberalism - United States - History - 19th, Democracy - United States - History - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006034390
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.510

From the jacket flap

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 1850s and the 1890s while she recaptures their insistence on the ability of ordinary citizens to work toward their limitless potential as intelligent and moral human beings. At the core of Butler's study are the writers George William Curtis, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, a quartet of friends who would together define the humane liberalism of America's late Victorian middle class.