{"product_id":"a-sincere-and-teachable-heart-self-denying-virtue-in-british-intellectual-life-1736-1859-9789004263369","title":"A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Bellon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890601083031,"sku":"9789004263369","price":18564.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004263369.webp?v=1781180646","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-sincere-and-teachable-heart-self-denying-virtue-in-british-intellectual-life-1736-1859-9789004263369","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}