000 03222cam a22003373u 4500
001 78449
003 UtSlPG
005 20260610134823.0
006 m
007 cr n
008 260607r20261891utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d
040 _aUtSlPG
041 7 _aen
_2iso639-1
050 4 _aPR
100 1 _aBagehot, Walter,
_d1826-1877
245 1 0 _aLiterary studies, volume 1 (of 2)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-15
505 0 _aPreliminary memoir -- The first Edinburg reviewers (1855) -- Hartley Coleridge (1852) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) -- Shakespeare: the man (1853) -- John Milton (1859) -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) -- William Cowper (1855) -- Appendix: Letters on the French coup d'état of 1851 (1852). Caesarism as it existed in 1865. Memoir of the Right Hon. James Wilson (1860).
508 _aTim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Literary studies, volume 1 (of 2)" by Walter Bagehot is a collection of literary essays and criticism with a biographical memoir written in the late 19th century. The volume brings together Bagehot’s portraits of leading English authors with political and biographical appendices, framed by Richard Holt Hutton’s prefatory memoir. Expect historically grounded, psychologically alert criticism that blends literature, politics, and style, delivered with wit and clarity. The opening of the volume presents brief editorial notices for the new edition, a table of contents, and then Richard Holt Hutton’s substantial memoir of Bagehot. Hutton portrays him as more than an economist: a buoyant, imaginative, keenly detached observer whose humor strengthened his judgment. He traces Bagehot’s Somerset banking roots, formative education at University College London under De Morgan and others, and early fascinations with poetry, philosophy, and theology. Pivotal influences and episodes include friendship with A. H. Clough (tempering haste and will), the provocative Paris letters on the coup d’état, and the decision to choose banking and the Economist over the Bar. The memoir sketches the making of Bagehot’s major ideas—animated moderation in politics, the “cake of custom” in social evolution, a theistic reading of evolution compatible with free will, and a vivid view of capitalists as the strategists of commerce—alongside his near-misses in Parliament and lively conversation. Overall, the beginning sets the essays in context by offering a concise, character-rich life of their author. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Longmans, Green & Co., 1891
653 _aEnglish literature -- History and criticism
700 1 _aHutton, Richard Holt,
_d1826-1897
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/literarystudies00bageuoft
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78449
999 _c119169
_d119169