Reading Gladstone

著者

    • Windscheffel, Ruth Clayton

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Reading Gladstone

Ruth Clayton Windscheffel

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-318) and index

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内容説明

This interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world.

目次

List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: READING THE READER Sacred Dramas: the history of a collection, 1815-1896 Rhythms of Reading PART II: MAKING THE READER The Gentleman's Inheritance, 1809-1836 A Place of Deceptive Tranquillity: Gladstone's Temple of Peace PART III: ST DEINIOL'S Humanity: Libraries, Literature, and Liberalism Divinity: Gladstone, Oxford, and Lux Mundi PART IV: TRANSFORMING THE READER Political Lotus Eater to Grand Old Bookman: re-presenting Gladstone the reader Conclusion References Bibliography

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