The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton James C. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, James, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists.

Intellectual life.

Criticism.

Authors, American.

Criticism--United States--History--19th century.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

United States.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Nation.

Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865).

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908.

Norton, Charles Eliot.

Local Subjects:

Nation.

Genre:

History.

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 507 pages) :) illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton is the first major biography of this towering figure in American journalism, letters, and education. Norton was editor of the North American Review and a founder of the Nation. He was the leading American Dantist of his day, translating the Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy in what became standard versions. He initiated art history in the college curriculum, organized the field of classical archaeology in the United States, and formulated what has come to be known in college courses as "Western Civilization."" "James Turner's biography offers the first full account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic - an American analogue to John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold, his close friends." "Most importantly, Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities, historicism, and culture and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised. Drawing on nearly a hundred archives in the United States, Britain, and Italy, The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton reveals a new picture of the beginnings of the humanities in American higher education."--Jacket.

Contents:

Prologue: The New England Clerisy

Shady Hill, 1786-1842

Cambridge and Boston, 1842-1849

The World, 1849-1851

A Merchant in the Unmaking, 1851-1855

Adrift, 1855-1857

A Literary Invalid, 1857-1861

Toward "A Science of Ideal Politics," 1861-1865

The North American, the Nation, and the Nation, 1865-1868

Europe and Erudition, 1868-1872

Interlude

Beginning Again, 1873-1878

Fresh Foundations of Learning, 1878-1882

Olympus Ascended, 1882-1886

Years That Bring the Philologic Mind, 1886-1891

To Make Democracy Safe for the World, 1891-1895

The Invention of Western Civilization, 1895-1898

Shady Hill Again, 1898-1908

The Published Writings of Charles Eliot Norton.

Notes:

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-494) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-8018-6147-0

OCLC:

1131894575