Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Preface xi
5. PART ONE: ACADEMIC RADICALS: 1840-68
6. 1. Elitism, the Clerisy, and University Reform at Oxford 3
7. 2. Seeking the Nation: 1848-67 21
8. 3. The Alliance of Brains and Numbers 34
9. PART TWO: COMTE IN AN ENGLISH SETTING
10. 4. From Oxford to Comte 55
11. 5. The Search for the Proletariat 69
12. 6. Rhetoric and Respectability 84
13. PART THREE: POLITICS AND THE INTELLECTUAL: JOHN MORLEY AND FREDERIC HARRISON
14. 7. The Vocation of the Intellectual 104
15. 8. The Retreat into Politics: John Morley 117
16. 9. The Retreat from Politics: Frederic Harrison 136
17. Epilogue: Innocence and Experience 155
18. Notes 169
19. Bibliography 191
20. Index 203