The Cambridge Apostles, 1820 1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life

This book is a full-scale study of the world's most famous secret society, the Cambridge Apostles. It shows how the Apostles recruited their members, examines their intellectual preoccupations, and studies the careers of such figures as F. D. Maurice, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes by tracing the participation of the Apostles in politics, letters, and liberal reform in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book also examines the role of liberalism, imagination, and friendship in modern life.

Author: W. C. Lubenow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/21/2007
Pages: 476
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780521037280

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