The Cambridge Apostles, the early years
Peter Allen explores the history of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret club that has played an influential role in the development of the British intelligentsia. He traces the origins and early history particular the years just before the first Reform Bill when the central figures among the Apostles were F. D. Maurice, Arthur Hallam and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Print Book, English, 2010
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Eng., 2010
x, 266 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
9780521142540, 0521142547
912464061
List of illustrations; Preface; Textual note; 1. The spirit of the Society; 2. The Society in its first years; 3. Thomas Sunderland and the Cambridge Union; 4. Maurice: the making of a Victorian prophet; 5. Maurice: the rise of Apostolic theology; 6. The mystics; 7. The Spanish adventure; 8. The Society in the early thirties; 9. Arthur Hallam; 10. The Round Table in the thirties and forties; 11. The Sterling Club; 12. The old order and the new; Appendix; Notes; Index.
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