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The Form of the Liberal Individual The Form of the Liberal Individual
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The Character of Liberal Individualism The Character of Liberal Individualism
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Liberal Eccentricity Liberal Eccentricity
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The Dream of Liberal Deformation The Dream of Liberal Deformation
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The Nightmare of Liberal Deformation The Nightmare of Liberal Deformation
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Epilogue: Reproducing Liberalism Epilogue: Reproducing Liberalism
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Two A Body of Thought: The Form of Liberal Individualism
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Published:May 2010
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Abstract
This chapter explores the form liberal individualism took. The liberal individual presumed to emerge from the myriad procedures of Victorian liberalization is a complicated ideological, theoretical, and historical construct, more often referenced in Victorian literary criticism than intensively examined. The chapter states that this subject is almost always an amalgam of the characteristics and characteristic practices most consistently iterated in canonical texts of classical liberalism. The chapter also looks at the revisions made to those premises in contemporary Victorian political and social theory, and the modern reformulations of that genealogy. In the Victorian period, a partial commitment to gradual democratization and an expansion of conceptions of proprietorship encouraged liberal thinkers, such as John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold, to emphasize afresh a pedagogy of self-development that would, in David Lloyd and Paul Thomas's term, “educe” the citizen, who would only then be prepared for the privileges and responsibilities of liberal citizenship.
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