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THE VICTORIAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank The Victorian Eighteenth Century An Intellectual History B. W. YOUNG 1 1 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©BrianYoung2007 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2007 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN978–0–19–925622–8 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Tomysiblings–Roselyn,Deborah,andStuart This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations x Introduction 1 1. Carlyleandthe‘DistractedCentury’ 10 2. Carlyle,Friedrich,andthe‘BastardHeroic’ 38 3. Gibbon,Newman,andtheReligiousAccuracyoftheHistorian 70 4. TheStephenFamilyandtheEighteenthCentury 103 5. HanoverianHauntings 148 Index 187 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements I owe an immense amount to a great number of people and to several institutions in my work on this book. The original idea for the book dates back to my time as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and it took something like its final shape and conception during the years I spent in the History Subject Group at the University of Sussex. Research on the book was aided by a British AcademySmallGrantwhichenabledmetospendthesummermonths of2003asavisitingfellowatClareHall,Cambridge;Iamgratefultothe AcademyandtothePresidentandFellowsofClareHallformakingthat productive and restorative stay possible. The book was largely written at Christ Church, Oxford. I would like to thank the librarians at the Bodleian Library, the British Library, Cambridge University Library, and the London Library; many books have also been fetched for me fromtheWingWingofChristChurchlibrary.Thebookhasbeenread in typescript by several friends and colleagues: John Walsh and John Burrow read most of the book, and chapters were also read and commented upon by Ruth Scurr, Donald Winch, Blair Worden, and Norman Vance. An earlier version of chapter 3 appeared in David Womersley ed., Edward Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays (Oxford, 1997). Mydebtstoindividualsareenormous,andIwishtothankinparticular the members of my family who kept faith in the project, and also thoseofitsmemberswhosimplyremindedmeoftheimportantthings: the Youngs (Brian, Joyce, Deborah, Stuart, Claire, Jacob, and Olivia); the Aherns (Adam and Ann); the Dewars (Roselyn, Peter, Helen, and Sophie);andtheRobinsons(Faye,Nicholas,Phoebe,andJemima).The debtIowetomysiblingsisincalculable,andmydedicationofthebook tothemisaninadequateacknowledgementofthisfact.MishtooniBose was a great friend and support at all times, and so also has been Noël Sugimura. Christ Church is an ideal environment in which to work, and I am deeply grateful to my friends and colleagues for helping to sustainthisprojecttoitscompletion. B.W.Y. ChristChurch, Oxford, November2006
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