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1 Online-Ressource (xv, 357 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030834388
Inhalt:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Prelude: 'Who Is RICHARD CONGREVE?' It Will Be Asked -- 'Cut Your Throats' for Grandmother's 'Ditchwater' -- 'Worshippers of His Madness' -- A 'Social Cuckoo'? -- A 'Mass of Wounds and Bruises, Ending in Death' -- References -- Chapter 2: Things About a Highly Strung Evangelist, 1818-1838 -- Old Clothes -- School of 'High Glee', 'Hateful in Many Ways, and Loveable in None' -- The Family Table and Fishing Hole -- Manly Christian 'Fighting' Muscles Versus 'Immoral Boyishness' -- Tracts on Spiritual Independence -- Lonely Quadrangles and 'Social Fathers' -- 'Conceited Boys' -- Chapel of Compulsory Evangelicalism -- References -- Chapter 3: Once Timorous, Now a 'Very Dangerous' Infidel, 1838-1845 -- A Ghostly Chair and a 'maiden sword' -- The Congreve Quartet and the 'evil' Examinations -- The 'struggle for oneself' -- Poison-Pen Papers on Tax and Tracts -- A 'national calamity', 'banquette of diligence', and a 'heretic' -- A 'very dangerous infidel' of Christian Society -- Embracing a 'hopeless species of infidelity' -- The 'cock of the school' -- References -- Chapter 4: A 'Man of Fiery Temperament', 1845-1852 -- A 'Dreadful' Man Under the 'Greatest Heat' -- Marooned on Hero Island with Atheism in 'an English Dress' -- A 'Political Art', a 'Faulty and Untenable' One -- A 'Death-Blow to Class Legislation' -- The 'Fiery Rocket' Man Misfires -- Regions of Imminent Peril, and a Happy 'Humanity Lecturer' -- In Between 'Mumbo Jumbo' and the 'Presence of a Master' -- Awaiting 'Some New Pilot' of a 'Philosophic Priesthood' -- In Defence of the 'Balaks of Manchester', the 'Great Instrument of Our Ruin' -- 'Savage Snarls' at the 'Ignorant Bumpkin' -- References -- Chapter 5: Leader of a 'Slightly Terrorist School of Philanthropists', 1852-1857.
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ISBN 9783030834371
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030834371
Sprache:
Englisch
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