Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform Book

Preface     xi
Introduction     1
Victorian Duty, American Scholars, and National Crisis     17
Manlike Let Him Turn and Face the Danger     20
The World's Eye...the World's Heart     26
To Cheer, to Raise, and to Guide Men by Showing Them Facts amidst Appearances     35
This Revolution Is to Be Wrought by the Gradual Domestication of the Ideal of Culture     42
The War for the Union and the Vindication of American Democracy     52
Understanding That a "Democracy Can Think"     54
Emancipating the Public Opinion of the North     63
A Struggle of the Antidemocrats with the Democrats     69
Conquering the Old World     74
The Liberal High Tide and Educative Democracy     87
The Tide Is Turning in Favor of Liberalism     89
The Total Overthrow of the Spirit of Caste     98
To Exercise Their Minds on the Great Social and Political Questions     109
Modern Republicans Must Be Reading Republicans     121
Liberal Culture in a Gilded Age     128
Something Better Than Riches...Something Utterly Apart from This World's Wealth     131
Still Colonists and Provincials in Culture     142
A Passion for Diffusing     153
ThereIs No Country Where Genuine Criticism...Is More Needed     165
The Politics of Liberal Reform     175
A Sovereign to Whose Voice Everyone Listens     178
Slackening the Bonds of Party Tyranny     191
Unable to Beget or Bear...Doomed to Sterility, Isolation, and Extinction     200
The Political Interest of the World Is Centered in America     208
Global Power and the Illiberalism of Empire     221
Subordinating Public Policy to Moral Law     224
Ireland Is England's Touchstone, as Slavery Was Ours     232
America Has...Chosen the Path of Barbarism     241
Imperialism-the Great Moral Plague of Our Time...on Both Sides of the Atlantic     249
Epilogue     262
Notes     269
Bibliography     325
Index     361