The memoirs of Walter Bagehot / Frank Prochaska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prochaska, F. K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877.

Bagehot, Walter.

Economists--Great Britain--Biography.

Economists.

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly "Bagehot" column. His analyses of politics, economics, and public affairs were nothing short of brilliant. Sadly, he left no memoir. How, then, does this book bear the title, The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot? Frank Prochaska explains, "Given my longstanding interest in Bagehot's life and times, I decided to compose a memoir on his behalf." And so, in this imaginative reconstruction of the memoir Bagehot might have written, Prochaska assumes his subject's voice, draws on his extensive writings (Bagehot's Collected Works fill 15 volumes), and scrupulously avoids what Bagehot considered that most unpardonable of faults-dullness. A faux autobiography allows for considerable license, but Prochaska remains true to Bagehot's character and is accurate in his depiction of the times. The memoir immerses us in the spirit of the Victorian era and makes us wish to have known Walter Bagehot. He is, Prochaska observes, the Victorian with whom we would most want to have dinner.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

8 Queen's Gate Place

I. A Somerset Childhood

II. A London Education

III. A French Experience

IV. Banking and Letters

V. History

VI. Marriage and Ambition

VII. London and The Economist

VIII. Spare Mind

IX. The American Crisis and the English Constitution

X. Politics

XI. Physics and Politics

XII. Political Economy

XIII. Valediction

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-300-19861-2

OCLC:

856021355