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Essays in Literature and History

by James Anthony Froude

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Poetry, religion and the writing of history meet in this collection of James Anthony Froude's essays. Its contents range from Arnold's poems and Oxford to the Book of Job, the lives of saints, Spinoza and the dissolution of monasteries. The pieces appeared in nineteenth-century periodicals, bringing literary criticism into contact with questions of faith, education and historical judgment.

A critical introduction examines Froude's forceful prose and his habit of presenting disputed claims with confidence. In the historical discussion sampled here, Froude warns that a catalogue of wrongdoing can misrepresent an entire age when its balancing details are left out. He also considers how personal experience, national differences and religious loyalties affect our ability to understand other people.

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James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude built a varied career as a historian, biographer, novelist, and longtime editor of Fraser’s Magazine. Educated at Oxford, his reputation grew through his multivolume history of Tudor England and for studies of figures including Thomas Carlyle, Julius Caesar, John Bunyan, and Erasmus.

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Pages
256
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History
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