Anne C. Rose | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Book Review

The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton. By James Turner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xviii, 507 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6147-0.)

James Turner offers us a superbly crafted and absorbing biography of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century American culture. Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) has been remembered, if at all, as a spokesman of the genteel tradition during the twilight years of New England's influence. Turner clearly establishes, in contrast, that Norton was a pioneer in introducing European culture to a still-provincial America. With a few others, he founded the fields of art history, archaeology, and Dante studies and brought them to public awareness. For a man who sailed to India in his twenties, regularly crossed Europe viewing buildings and art, and kept company with the giants of British Victorian letters, explaining aesthetic traditions to Americans was a reflex of his own cosmopolitanism. . . .

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