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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a biographer, an essayist, an imperial mandarin, and a dutiful family man. Thornton joined the East India Company in the mid-1830s, rising to become Secretary of the India Office’s Department of Public Works. This study uses Thornton’s letters and other recently-discovered primary material to provide a fascinating account that returns his compelling life to the center of nineteenth-century British intellectual thought.
Authors and Affiliations
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461 Clementi Road, Sim University 461 Clementi Road, Singapore, Singapore
Mark Donoghue
About the author
Mark Donoghue has held faculty appointments at the Australian National University, National University of Singapore and the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He is currently on the faculty of SIM University, Singapore. He has published extensively in the field of the history of economic thought.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Faithful Victorian
Book Subtitle: William Thomas Thornton, 1813-1880
Authors: Mark Donoghue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58773-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59086-2Published: 22 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58773-2Published: 07 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Social History, Imperialism and Colonialism