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Reading Gladstone / Ruth Clayton Windscheffel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Windscheffel, Ruth Clayton, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898--Books and reading.
- Gladstone, W. E.
- Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.
- St. Deiniol's Library.
- Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- History.
- Books and reading.
- Great Britain.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- St. Deiniol's Library--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) is a figure of central importance in British history who has normally and understandably been treated as a statesman, the role in which he achieved international fame. Reading Gladstone, however, investigates areas of his life which have rarely, if ever, been examined in the past: his role as village librarian, his synchronized collection of books and women, and the remarkable transformations that occurred in his (self-) representation as a scholar-politician. By exploring the ways in which Gladstone's reading and book-collecting possessed significance in Victorian culture, Ruth Clayton Windscheffel's book makes a major contribution to fresh intellectual and cultural perspectives on the statesman.
- Contents:
- Part I Reading the Reader
- 1 Sacred Dramas: The History of a Collection, 1815-96 23
- 2 Rhythms of Reading 44
- Part II Making the Reader
- 3 The Gentleman's Inheritance, 1809-36 81
- 4 A Place of Deceptive Tranquillity: Gladstone's Temple of Peace 101
- Part III St Deiniol's Library
- 5 Humanity: Libraries, Literature, and Liberalism 131
- 6 Divinity: Gladstone, Oxford, and Lux Mundi 159
- Part IV Transforming the Reader
- 7 Political Lotus-Eater to Grand Old Bookman: Re-presenting Gladstone the Reader 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230007651
- 9780230007659
- OCLC:
- 156831791
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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