In this important study Dr Smith uses a wide range of primary materials to provide the first modern comprehensive examination of the work, writings and ideas of James Fitzjames Stephen. Stephen's broad rationalist/utilitarian ethical and intellectual stance manifested itself most prominently in law and social and political philosophy. Stephen's turn of mind led him to perceive the substance of literature and religious orthodoxy as of complementary interest and relevance to the social and political mores of Victorian England, making him one of Dickens' and Cardinal Newman's most formidable and trenchant critics. Dr Smith's account is the first to set Stephen's life and thought in its proper Victorian context, and marks a significant addition to the growing literature on the intellectual history of nineteenth-century England.
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James Fitsjames Stephen was born on 3 March 1829 into the upper-middle classes of an England of which George IV was king, the Duke of Wellington Prime Minister with the Great Reform Act and the death of Jeremy Bentham still three years distant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mental culpability, judicial evidence, higher journalism, wider franchise, law commissioners, franchise reforms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leslie Stephen, Sir James, Fitzjames Stephen, General View, Pall Mall Gazette, Edinburgh Review, Grant Duff, Legal Member, Frederic Harrison, John Morley, Lord Chancellor, Law Commission, Henry Maine, Home Secretary, Matthew Arnold, Frederick Pollock, Contemporary Review, James Mill, Ancient Law, Civil Service, Court of Criminal Appeal, Fortnightly Review, Fraser's Magazine, High Court, M'Naughten Rules New!
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James Fitsjames Stephen was born on 3 March 1829 into the upper-middle classes of an England of which George IV was king, the Duke of Wellington Prime Minister with the Great Reform Act and the death of Jeremy Bentham still three years distant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mental culpability, judicial evidence, higher journalism, wider franchise, law commissioners, franchise reforms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leslie Stephen, Sir James, Fitzjames Stephen, General View, Pall Mall Gazette, Edinburgh Review, Grant Duff, Legal Member, Frederic Harrison, John Morley, Lord Chancellor, Law Commission, Henry Maine, Home Secretary, Matthew Arnold, Frederick Pollock, Contemporary Review, James Mill, Ancient Law, Civil Service, Court of Criminal Appeal, Fortnightly Review, Fraser's Magazine, High Court, M'Naughten Rules New!
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- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: And Three Brief Essays by James Fitzjames Stephen on 51 pages
- On Compromise by John Morley on 12 pages
- George Eliot by Leslie Stephen on 11 pages
- The Subjection of Women (Great Books in Philosophy) by John Stuart Mill on 6 pages
- Autobiographic Memoirs by Frederic Harrison on 5 pages
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- The Law of Evidence in Victorian England (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History) by C. J. W. Allen on page 27, and Back Matter
- The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky in Back Matter
- Victorian Political Thought on France and the French by Georgios Varouxakis in Back Matter
- Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism by Daniel S. Malachuk in Back Matter
- History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 by Stefan Collini on page 249
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