Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination

2020-04-10

Howard, Victorian Knight-Errant, 24. “Superstition,” the atheist Shelley wrote in “A Defence of Poetry,” “would make poetry an attribute of prophecy, rather than prophecy an attribute of poetry.” Essays, 1:7. Qtd. in Howard, Victorian ...

Author: Kenyon Gradert

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226694160

Category: History

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The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.
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Victorian Knight errant

1952

A biography of James Russell Lowell, an American Romantic poet.

Author: Leon Howard

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Category: Poets, American

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A biography of James Russell Lowell, an American Romantic poet.
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David Urquhart

1970

Author: Gertrude Robinson

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DAVID URQUHART SOME CHAPTERS I

2016-08-27

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Author: Gertrude B. 1876 Robinson

Publisher: Wentworth Press

ISBN: 1371733716

Category: History

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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David Urquart

1970

Author: Gertrude Robinson

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ISBN: OCLC:181846754

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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

2018-08-29

Howard, Victorian Knight-Errant, 272. the Middle Ages was an age of faith. Chandler, Dream of Order, 235. On Lowell's medievalism, see Howard, Victorian Knight-Errant. satirized a craftsman. James Russell Lowell, “The Unhappy Lot of.

Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

ISBN: 9781783745241

Category: Literary Criticism

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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.
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Liberty Abroad

2013-08-01

See periodicals, Victorian works on Before the Socialists: Studies in Labour and Politics 1861 to 1881 (Royden Harrison), David Urquhart: Some Chapters in the Life ofa Victorian Knight Errant ofjustice and Liberty (Gertrude Robinson), ...

Author: Georgios Varouxakis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107435063

Category: Political Science

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John Stuart Mill (1806–73) is widely regarded as the pre-eminent thinker of the liberal tradition; and yet because his views on international relations cannot be traced in any particular book or essay, his political thought remains largely misunderstood. Liberty Abroad is the first comprehensive, critical study which brings together all of John Stuart Mill's extensive contributions with particular attention to the historical contexts in which they were produced, as well as the political and philosophical preoccupations that prompted them, and how they were received among his contemporaries. A leading Mill scholar, Dr Georgios Varouxakis combines an extraordinary command of Mill's varied and extensive writings with a meticulous mastery of a range of Victorian controversies and thinkers to give a full, subtle evaluation of a major aspect of Mill's thought. This definitive study offers a major contribution to an area of increasing scholarly interest: the history of international political thought.
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David Urquhart

2018-01-13

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Author: Gertrude Robinson

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ISBN: 0428997988

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Excerpt from David Urquhart: Some Chapters in the Life of a Victorian Knight-Errant of Justice and Liberty IT is not easy to write about the life and work of a man who set himself consciously and diametrically against the opinion of his time. A biographer has but two courses open to him, either to argue that in im portant matters, at any rate, Opinion was wrong and his view right, an undertaking of perilous length and difficulty, or to explain his hero, to put in a plea, in other words, for extenuating circumstances. The second alternative is a confession of failure, and no one who knows and admires David Urquhart would be SO poor-spirited as to adopt it. Silence would be preferable, silence until the enemy had surrendered, until opinion had so changed that much which had seemed preposterous paradox had become accepted or at least acceptable. The opinions which Urquhart attacked have not yet been entirely abandoned, they have not yet been trans formed, as he would have said, into judgments. They have, however, shifted their ground, and much that he wrote and said would be better understood now than in his lifetime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Updated Edition

2009

... when Lowell and his Pioneer co-editor Robert Carter took action against their publishers Leland and Whiting in March 1843, they provided a bond signed by lawyers Sumner and George S. Hillard (Howard, Victorian Knight-Errant, 130).

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

ISBN: 9781438113357

Category: American fiction

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A collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne's work.
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