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A sincere and teachable heart : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 / by Richard Bellon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellon, Richard (Historian), author.
- Series:
- History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 14.
- Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 2352-1325 ; Volume 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-denial--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Self-denial.
- Virtue--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Virtue.
- Patience--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Patience.
- Humility--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Humility.
- Ethics--Great Britain--History.
- Ethics.
- Oxford movement--History.
- Oxford movement.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Great Britain--Moral conditions.
- Church of England--History.
- Church of England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859 , Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Common Things to Speak of: The Meaning of Patience and Humility in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
- From Virtue to Duty: The Victorian Application of Patience and Humility to Social and Intellectual Life
- Character and Morality in Eighteenth-Century British Thought
- The Utility of Virtue
- Patience, Utility and Revolution
- Oxford and the Age of Reform
- The Oxford Movement: Faith and Obedience in a Tumultuous and Shifting World
- Faith and Reason in Newman’s University Sermons
- The Hampden Affair: Divergent Paths out of a Spiritual Wilderness
- Thomas Arnold Confronts the “Oxford Malignants”
- The Tamworth Letters: Virtue and Science
- Tract 90 and the Trial of Patience in the Church of England
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-26335-7
- OCLC:
- 897644189
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004263352 DOI
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