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The Cambridge Apostles, 1820–1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life
W. C. Lubenow
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Paperback. A full-scale study of the world's most famous secret society, the Cambridge 'Apostles'. Num Pages: 476 pages, 33 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; HBTB; JFSV1; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 708.
This book offers a highly engaging history of the world's most famous secret society, the Cambridge 'Apostles', based upon the lives, careers and correspondence of the 255 Apostles elected to the Cambridge Conversazione Society between 1820 and 1914. It examines the way in which the Apostles recruited their membership, the Society's discussions and its intellectual preoccupations. From its pages emerge such figures as F. D. Maurice, John Sterling, John Mitchell Kemble, Richard Trench, Fenton Hort, James Clerk Maxwell, Henry Sidgwick, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes. The careers of these and many other leading Apostles are traced, ... Read more
This book offers a highly engaging history of the world's most famous secret society, the Cambridge 'Apostles', based upon the lives, careers and correspondence of the 255 Apostles elected to the Cambridge Conversazione Society between 1820 and 1914. It examines the way in which the Apostles recruited their membership, the Society's discussions and its intellectual preoccupations. From its pages emerge such figures as F. D. Maurice, John Sterling, John Mitchell Kemble, Richard Trench, Fenton Hort, James Clerk Maxwell, Henry Sidgwick, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes. The careers of these and many other leading Apostles are traced, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
476
Condition
New
Number of Pages
476
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521037280
SKU
V9780521037280
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Reviews for The Cambridge Apostles, 1820–1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life
'This is a scholarly book, deep and learned, tightly focused but not without consideration of the wider context in which it sits.' Cambridge