Overview
Investigates the phenomenon of William Gladstone’s fame and influence in the United States
Examines American press coverage of William Gladstone in order to shed light on the influence of modern ideas in American religion and politics
Appeals to scholars of Victorian studies, British political history, Anglo-American relations, American religious history, and nineteenth-century American and British intellectual history
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Gladstone as Champion of Religious Liberty
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Front Matter
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Gladstone and the Battle for Orthodox Religion
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Epilogue
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Back Matter
Keywords
- William Gladstone
- Gladstone and America
- Gladstone and Religion
- British Liberalism
- Victorian America
- Victorian crisis of faith
- Victorian science and religion
- Anglo-American Relations
- 19th Century American Press
- separation of church and state
- Irish Church disestablishment
- anti-Catholicism in America
- Charles Bradlaugh
- papal infallibility
- evangelicalism
- T. H. Huxley
- Robert Ingersoll
- orthodox Christianity
- skepticism
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“This valuable study is rooted in the expansive quality of influence. Building on the work of David Bebbington, Peterson demonstrates how the self-fashioning of Gladstone always involved two roles, the politician and the cultural controversialist. This book details for the first time how Gladstone’s political fame and lifelong engagement as a Christian apologist drew him into the American culture wars of the late nineteenth century, and how the American press fashioned for themselves a mythic version of what it meant to be a great international statesman.” (John Powell, Professor of History, Oklahoma Baptist University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gladstone's Influence in America
Book Subtitle: Reactions in the Press to Modern Religion and Politics
Authors: Stephen J. Peterson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97996-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97995-3Published: 16 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07435-7Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97996-0Published: 02 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 243
Topics: US History, History of Britain and Ireland, Political History, Politics and Religion, History of Religion