James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a Victorian RationalistCambridge University Press, 2002 M07 18 - 352 pages In this important study Dr Smith uses a wide range of primary materials to provide the first modern comprehensive examination of the work, writings and ideas of James Fitzjames Stephen. Stephen's broad rationalist/utilitarian ethical and intellectual stance manifested itself most prominently in law and social and political philosophy. Stephen's turn of mind led him to perceive the substance of literature and religious orthodoxy as of complementary interest and relevance to the social and political mores of Victorian England, making him one of Dickens' and Cardinal Newman's most formidable and trenchant critics. Dr Smith's account is the first to set Stephen's life and thought in its proper Victorian context, and marks a significant addition to the growing literature on the intellectual history of nineteenth-century England. |
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Contents
EARLY IMPRESSIONS SIR JAMES ETON AND CAMBRIDGE | 1 |
A CONTROVERSIALIST IN THE MAKING LITERARY CRITICISM AND LEADERWRITING | 9 |
THE SATURDAY REVILER | 10 |
THE ARTIST PROPAGANDIST AND THE SEARCH FOR REALISM | 15 |
IMMORALITY AND FRENCH REALISM | 23 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAYS ARTISTRY | 26 |
CARLYLE MACAULAY AND FROUDE | 35 |
THE PALL MALL GAZETTE | 38 |
ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY AND THE RULE OF LAW A BLENDING OF SOMERSET HOUSE AND THE OLD BAILEY | 132 |
THE JAMAICA COMMITTEE AND IMPEY | 135 |
MAINTAINING THE INDIAN CONNECTION | 138 |
IRELAND AND THE GROWTH OF IMPERIALISM | 151 |
LIBERTY EQUALITY FRATERNITY REFUTATION AND APOLOGIA | 160 |
DEPENDENT OPPOSITES | 162 |
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL LIBERTY | 168 |
LIBERTY AND UTILITARIAN ORTHODOXY | 177 |
A SCIENCE OF CRIMINAL LAW | 44 |
PUNISHMENT AND DENUNCIATION | 54 |
THE CULPABLE MIND | 60 |
THE VOLUNTARY AGENT | 65 |
LAW LIVING AND ARMED THE MECHANISM OF ENFORCEMENT | 73 |
EVIDENCE AND THE LOGIC OF RELEVANCE | 84 |
PROCEDURAL BACKWATERS | 91 |
THE THREAT OF HOOFS AND HOBNAILS | 100 |
MILL AND THE TWO FACES OF POPULISM | 109 |
HOBBESIAN ANTECEDENTS | 113 |
INDIA AND THE IMPERIAL ETHIC | 123 |
A CODIFICATORY HARVEST | 126 |
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James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a Victorian Rationalist K. J. M. Smith No preview available - 1988 |
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