The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton

About this book

James Turners biography offers the first modern account of Nortons life and its significance following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his countrys preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities -- historicism and culture -- and how his influence endures in Americas colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.