The Liberal Education Of Charles Eliot Norton

Author : James C. Turner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421435977
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton written by James C. Turner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1999. James Turner's biography offers the first modern account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities—historicism and culture—and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.

Author : Linda C. Dowling
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Eliot Norton written by Linda C. Dowling and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in America. In modern times, by contrast, he has been condemned as the supercilious representative of an embattled patrician caste. This revisionary study argues that Norton’s genuine significance for American culture and politics today can only be grasped by recovering the vanished contexts in which his life and work took shape. In a wide-ranging analysis, Linda Dowling demonstrates the effects upon Norton’s thought of the great transatlantic humanitarian reform movement of the 1840s, the Pre-Raphaelite and Ruskinian revolution in art and architecture of the 1850s and the surging liberal optimism that emerged from the Civil War. Drawing on numerous deleted passages from Norton’s manuscript journals, Dowling probes beneath the imperturbable mask of the public Norton, bringing to light the elusive private man. Returning from Europe in 1873, bereft of his wife and stripped of his religious belief, Norton was compelled to confront the painful contradictions within his own liberal political faith. In a land given to celebrating freedom of speech, Norton would become a speaker subjected to physical threats for opposing the Spanish-American War. Among a people given to glorying in its superiority to other civilizations, he would become a social critic reviled for arguing that the nation was failing to live up to its own most cherished ideals. It would be Norton’s misfortune, shared with others of his generation, to watch the golden promise of a victorious war for the Union fade into the unrepentant cynicism of the Gilded Age. Yet Norton’s militant idealism and heroic citizenship, Dowling argues, survive now as a vital parable for American civic liberalism in the present day.

Author : Charles Eliot Norton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of Charles Eliot Norton written by Charles Eliot Norton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Waldo Emerson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book Charles Eliot Norton written by Edward Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Eliot Norton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book Letters of Charles Eliot Norton: The teacher ; The field of influence ; Friends and country ; Activities of retirement ; Unto the last ; Words of a contemporary written by Charles Eliot Norton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Eliot Norton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book Letters of Charles Eliot Norton written by Charles Eliot Norton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. B. Carnochan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804723648
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battleground of the Curriculum written by W. B. Carnochan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the current debates about the curriculum in historical context and offers considerations for the future.

Author : Kermit Vanderbilt
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Charles Eliot Norton written by Kermit Vanderbilt and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea L. Turpin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706853
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Moral Vision written by Andrea L. Turpin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture. In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical Protestantism provided the main impetus for opening the highest levels of American education to women. Between the Civil War and World War I, however, shifting theological beliefs, a growing cultural pluralism, and a new emphasis on university research led educators to reevaluate how colleges should inculcate an ethical outlook in students—just as the proportion of female collegians swelled. In this environment, Turpin argues, educational leaders articulated a new moral vision for their institutions by positioning them within the new landscape of competing men's, women's, and coeducational colleges and universities. In place of fostering evangelical conversion, religiously liberal educators sought to foster in students a surprisingly more gendered ideal of character and service than had earlier evangelical educators. Because of this moral reorientation, the widespread entrance of women into higher education did not shift the social order in as egalitarian a direction as we might expect. Instead, college graduates—who formed a disproportionate number of the leaders and reformers of the Progressive Era—contributed to the creation of separate male and female cultures within Progressive Era public life and beyond. Drawing on extensive archival research at ten trend-setting men's, women's, and coeducational colleges and universities, A New Moral Vision illuminates the historical intersection of gender ideals, religious beliefs, educational theories, and social change in ways that offer insight into the nature—and cultural consequences—of the moral messages communicated by institutions of higher education today.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521320917
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton written by John Ruskin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin's letters to Norton reflect and express, often more vividly than his own public prose, the spiritual, amatory, artistic, and cultural preoccupations of Ruskin's life. This 1987 volume presents a complete and accurate record of the exchanges, which comprise 333 from Ruskin to Norton and 63 in return.