Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen

The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen

Hermione Lee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

454 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-957853-5 (ISBN)

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The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen (1895) is the biography of one eminent Victorian by another. This is the only modern edition available.

James Fitzjames Stephen was a distinguished jurist, a codifier of the law in England and India, and the judge in the ill-fated Maybrick case; a serious and prolific journalist, a pillar of the Saturday Review and the Pall Mall Gazette; and in Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873) the hard-hitting assailant of John Stuart Mill. Fitzjames's younger brother Leslie was founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen (1895) is the biography of one eminent Victorian by another. It is a lucid and affectionate portrait, yet far from uncritical, as revealing of its author as its subject. With a narrative that embraces legal history, the government of India, the Victorian press, the crisis of religious faith, and the 'paradise lost' of political liberalism, the biography is also an indispensable source for the history of the Stephen family, which belonged to what Noel Annan called the 'intellectual aristocracy' of the nineteenth century, connecting the Clapham Sect to the Bloomsbury group.

This first modern edition of The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen is a volume in the OUP series Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen. It includes an introductory essay by Hermione Lee, extensive notes, four appendices of additional documents (many previously unpublished), and a bibliography of Fitzjames Stephen's articles and reviews by Thomas E. Schneider.

Christopher Tolley teaches at Winchester College. He is the author of Domestic Biography (OUP, 1997), a study of life-writing in four nineteenth-century families, which won the Royal Historical Society Whitfield prize.

Hermione Lee: Introductory Essay
Editorial Preface
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
Appendix 1: Obituary, Reviews
Appendix 2: James Fitzjames Stephen, 'The Wealth of Nature'
Appendix 3: Extracts from James Fitzjames Stephen's Autobiography
Appendix 4: Letters
Thomas E. Schneider: A Bibliography of James Fitzjames Stephen's Articles and Reviews

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen
Zusatzinfo	8 black-and-white halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 242 mm
Gewicht	834 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10	0-19-957853-2 / 0199578532
ISBN-13	978-0-19-957853-5 / 9780199578535
Zustand	Neuware