Public and Private Doctrine
Public and Private Doctrine
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GBPMaurice Cowling's first two books appeared in 1963, the year in which he also became a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. This volume brings together a group of pupils, admirers and critics who have contributed essays dealing with facets of what Cowling calls 'public doctrine' in modern British history, together with critical assessments of his writing and his role as a major Cambridge figure. This varied group of essays helps to situate Cowling's work in its wider environment which will aid those who are coming to it for the first time or who are trying to make sense of its complex filiations. Above all, it seeks to be as unsycophantic, rebarbative and diverting as its dedicatee, while offering something genuinely worthwhile to all readers interested in recent historical and current intellectual tendencies in England.
- A carefully crafted and unusual collection of essays in honour of the controversial Peterhouse (Cambridge) historian Maurice Cowling
- Contains a very wide range of essays, two extended personal appraisals of Cowling's work and influence, and a selection of his journalism
- The controversiality of many of Cowling's views, which are linked closely with current politics, should ensure reviews on publication
Reviews & endorsements
'And what a rich book it is. There is not a single essay in it that does not provide cause for serious reflection.' Patrick Cosgrove, Daily Telegraph
Product details
August 2002Paperback
9780521522175
370 pages
229 × 152 × 21 mm
0.54kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Michael Bentley
- 1. The friends of the constitution in Church and State, 1667–73 James Jones
- 2. The Peterhouse Latitudinarians Richard Brent
- 3. Religion and the social order: the case of Burke and Paine Ian Harris
- 4. Religion in the Victorian novel Shirley Letwin
- 5. Victorian historians and the larger hope Michael Bentley
- 6. The Conservative Party and the Church of England, 1874–1902 Richard Shannon
- 7. George Gilbert Scott Junior, 1837–97: 'the history of a narrow mind' David Watkin
- 8. Frederick Temple on the Clerisy and the idea of a meritocracy Simon Green
- 9. Faith and fellowship: the conservatism of John Buchan J. P. Parry
- 10. Service: the public doctrine of the Conservative leadership, 1922–40 Philip Williamson
- 11. Destiny and providence: the religion of Winston Churchill Paul Addison
- 12. Liberal collectivism and the English Catholic hierarchy Sheila Lawlor
- 13. Culture and community Roger Scruton
- 14. Religion and public doctrine Peter Ghosh
- 15. Public doctrine, private lives: the iconography of belief in a commercial society A. Boyd Hilton.
