Buch, Englisch, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 614 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway
Buch, Englisch, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 614 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
ISBN: 978-1-108-05061-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Published in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832-1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, which feature in the work alongside his devoted family life. Volume 2 covers his time in Europe, witnessing and reporting on the unifications of Italy and Germany, the Franco-Prussian War, and the birth of the Third Republic. The death of his wife and his own declining years in Paris close the work, which also tracks his ardent anti-war stance and the sad rejection of his long-standing faith in progress.
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28. Discussions in London concerning slavery and the negro; 29. My reviews of Browning; 30. Settlement at South Place Chapel; 31. The Taylors of Aubrey House; 32. Parliament; 33. Lord Rector Carlyle in Edinburgh; 34. Ruskin; 35. 'Artemus Ward'; 36. Paris; 37. London scientific circle; 38. James Anthony Froude; 39. Belgium at the outbreak of the Franco-German war; 40. The fete of victory at Berlin; 41. First visit to Rome; 42. George Peabody; 43. Brooke Herford; 44. Max Müller at Oxford; 45. Dr Jowett at Balliol; 46. Anthropology; 47. Sorby and the spectrum; 48. Residence at Hamlet House; 49. London as Mars Hill; 50. Carlyle-Emerson letters; 51. Memoranda; 52. Index.
