Froude intellectual biography sample
Selects five of the best intellectual biographies, including studies of the lives of the novelist George Eliot and the philosopher Derek Parfit....
Based on a thorough critical examination of all of Froude's published works - many of which have been discovered and identified here.
James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet
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James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals.
Known to intellectual historians as the author of a monumental History of England in the sixteenth century and as a key exponent of Victorian religious doubt, he is also frequently referenced as the author of a series of scandalously provocative novels and of a hugely controversial biography of Thomas Carlyle.
Historians of the British Empire and of Ireland have frequently been compelled to address his sometimes outrageous (but often representative) historical writings. Scholars of mid-Victorian politics have no less often turned to Froude as a typical representative of Victorian fears of democracy, while more recently students of political thought have identified him as an early representative of a new form of Commonwealth civic republicanism.
Yet for all that Froude