Only connect

• Verfasst von: Lubenow, William C.
• Titel: Only connect
• Titelzusatz: learned societies in nineteenth-century Britain
• Verf.angabe: William C. Lubenow
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Verlag: The Boydell Press
• E-Jahr: 2015
• Jahr: [2015]
• Umfang: x, 315 Seiten
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-046-0
• ISBN: 1-78327-046-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Großbritannien / (s)Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft / (z)Geschichte 1800-1900
• Schlagwörter: (g)England / (s)Gesellschaft / (z)Geschichte 1800-1900
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: NP 5700
• K10plus-PPN: 1614651612

Abstract

Includes bibliographical references and index

Abstract

In the early modern period the subject of knowledge was dogma. Early modern knowledge was often tied to confessional tests and state-building. One road to modernity could be read as escape from institutional and confessional restraints to the freedom of reason. A second one could be read as escape to networks of association and belonging. In the nineteenth century, the latter space was filled in Britain by learned societies (within or outside universities) or even clubs. It was a movement toward a different kind of method and a different kind of learning. Learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual. The history of cognition in nineteenth-century Britain became a history of various intellectual enclaves and the people who occupied them. This book examines the nature of knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain and the role of learned societies, clubs and coteries in its formation, organization and dissolution. Drawing on numerous, unpublished, private papers and manuscripts, it looks predominantly at societies in the metropolitan centres of London, Oxford and Cambridge