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

By William C. Lubenow

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521572134
• ISBN13: 9780521572132
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"