Newspaper Writings : : Volumes XXII-XXV / / John Stuart Mill; ed. by Ann Robson, John Robson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mill, John Stuart,
• MitwirkendeR: Robson, Ann P.,; Robson, John M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Robson, Ann,; Robson, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1668 p.)

For just over fifty years John Stuart Mill contributed articles and letters to the newspapers, setting before the public a radical position on contemporary events. From 1822 to 1873, in newspapers as widely read as The Times and the Morning Chronicle, and as narrowly circulated as the True Sun and the New Times, he praised his friends and damned his opponents, while commenting on a while range of issues at home and abroad, from banking to Ireland, from wife-beating to land nationalization.His main series of newspaper writings concerned France (especially during the first four years of the Revolution of 1830) and Ireland (especially during December 1846 and January 1847, when various proposals for relief of the starving cottiers were being debated). Mill felt himself peculiarly fitted to explain French affairs and Irish solutions to the non-comprehending and wrong-headed English.But his pen was wielded wherever he say stupidity and narrowness, and he found them in astonishingly varied areas. He tried to explain to his obdurate countrymen the first principles of law reform, political economy, relations between the sexes, democracy, international law, and much more.Virtually none of these texts have been reprinted before this volume. The Introduction by Ann Robson sets the items in their historical and personal perspective, and draws out the implications for Mill's life and thought. The Textual Introduction by John Robson gives an account of the sources of the texts, and lays out principles and methods followed in the editing.The Mill that emerges from these pages is a fighting journalist, uinhibited, forthright, and often brilliantly satirical, testing his theoretical opinions in the real world, gradually maturing and developing a practical philosophy whose influence has been felt well into our own time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Textual Introduction -- December 1822 to December 1824 -- September 1825 to October 1828 -- July 1830 to July 1831 -- August 1831 to July 1832 -- September 1832 to August 1833 -- September 1833 to October 1834 -- January 1835 to June 1846 -- October 1846 to June 1847 -- December 1847 to July 1858 -- March 1863 to July 1873 -- Appendices -- Index