Tom Brown's School Days
Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Boarding schools
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Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Boarding schools
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Author : Michael McCrum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This biography of Thomas Arnold is the first to examine his life and achievements as the reforming Head Master of the Rugby School from 1828 to 1842. McCrum provides both a unique portrayal of Arnold and a fascinating look into the British public school tradition.
Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9359324418
"Eminent Victorians" is a seminal work of biography and social commentary published by British writer and critic Lytton Strachey. By offering four unique portrayals of notable Victorian people, the book challenges the standard approach to biography. Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Charles Gordon are among Strachey's subjects. Strachey takes a sarcastic and critical perspective to their lives, rather than offering hagiographic narratives. He examines their shortcomings, paradoxes, and character complexity, presenting the human side of these great figures. Strachey's style is funny and astute, providing readers with a new perspective on these great figures. When it was initially released, the book's satirical tone and unorthodox biographical format generated quite a stir. Strachey's presentation of these illustrious Victorians as flawed and deficient questioned the conventional veneration for the era's heroes and heroines. "Eminent Victorians" is more than just a biography compilation; it's a critique of the Victorian society and beliefs that these figures embodied. Strachey's work was influential in altering the biography genre and encouraging a more nuanced and critical assessment of historical characters.
Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Publisher :
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108047456
Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393315103
Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited with establishing the science of electricity. John Adams had the finest education in science that the new country could provide, including "Pnewmaticks, Hydrostaticks, Mechanicks, Staticks, Opticks." James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution, peppered his Federalist Papers with references to physics, chemistry, and the life sciences. For these men science was an integral part of life--including political life. This is the story of their scientific education and of how they employed that knowledge in shaping the political issues of the day, incorporating scientific reasoning into the Constitution.
Author : Markus Schulte
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3638908119
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Fakultät III Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften), course: Victorian Britain, language: English, abstract: This coursework reflects on Thomas Arnold's reforms at Victorian public schools and their influence on British society. Thomas Hughes's famous semi-autobiographical "Tom Brown's Schooldays" is used to show how these changes affected the individual pupil and, seen from a macro-perspective, Britain's mid-Victorian society, especially its economy. Diese Hauptseminararbeit beschäftigt sich mit Thomas Arnolds public-school Reformen und deren Auswirkung auf die Britische Gesellschaft. Thomas Hughes halbautobiographischer Roman "Tom Brown's Schooldays" soll die Auswirkungen auf den einzelnen public-school Schüler zeigen, aus einer Makroperspektive, die Effekte auf die mittelviktorianische Britische Gesellschaft, insbesondere die Wirtschaft.
Author : Bernard Bergonzi
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780199257416
A biography of Matthew Arnold's Catholic younger brother Tom, a scholar, teacher, and self-styled 'wanderer'. Arnold's path in life took him, after a brilliant start at Oxford, to colonial New Zealand, to Tasmania, to Dublin, back to Oxford, and once more to Dublin, where he died in 1900. Hisspiritual wanderings led him into the Catholic Church, then out of it for some years, and finally back to it. He was close both to Matthew and to John Henry Newman, and his relations with them show unfamiliar aspects of these eminent Victorians. As a young man, Tom Arnold knew the elderlyWordsworth, and Arthur Hugh Clough was his closest friend. He was acquainted with such celebrated Oxford personalities as Benjamin Jowett, Mark Pattison, and Lewis Carroll; as a Professor of English in Dublin he was a colleague of Gerard Manley Hopkins; and in the last year of his life he read andapproved of an undergraduate essay by James Joyce.The book makes an original contribution to Victorian studies at the same time as telling an absorbing human story. An appendix contains a previously unpublished letter from Matthew Arnold to his brother.
Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 1833
Category : Church history
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Author : Arnold Whitridge
Publisher : London : Constable
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Educators
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