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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Prologue
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Gladstone as Champion of Religious Liberty
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Gladstone and the Battle for Orthodox Religion
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Epilogue
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