The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton

The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton / James C. Turner.

"The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton is the first major biography of this towering figure in American journalism, letters, and education. Norton was editor of the North American Review and a founder of the Nation. He was the leading American Dantist of his day, translating the Vita Nu...

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Turner, James, 1946-
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 507 pages) :); illustrations
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  • The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License
  • Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The New England Clerisy
  • Shady Hill, 1786-1842
  • Cambridge and Boston, 1842-1849
  • The World, 1849-1851
  • A Merchant in the Unmaking, 1851-1855
  • Adrift, 1855-1857
  • A Literary Invalid, 1857-1861
  • Toward "A Science of Ideal Politics," 1861-1865
  • The North American, the Nation, and the Nation, 1865-1868
  • Europe and Erudition, 1868-1872
  • Interlude
  • Beginning Again, 1873-1878
  • Fresh Foundations of Learning, 1878-1882
  • Olympus Ascended, 1882-1886
  • Years That Bring the Philologic Mind, 1886-1891
  • To Make Democracy Safe for the World, 1891-1895
  • The Invention of Western Civilization, 1895-1898
  • Shady Hill Again, 1898-1908
  • The Published Writings of Charles Eliot Norton.

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