| Mendilow, Jonathan. The Romantic Tradition
in British Political Thought (Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes &
Noble, 1986).
Mendilow examines aspects of Kingsley’s political philosophy and discusses some primary influences on its development: Carlyle, Shelley, Byron, Maurice, Wordsworth, Southey, Burns, Owen. He also stresses Kingsley’s advocacy of increased State involvement in a variety of societal spheres, for example a special ministry for sanitation, broad-ranging laws regulating employer-employee relations, an emigration scheme, more State involvement in education. For Kingsley a paternal government “would orchestrate the different sections of the people to produce the harmonious composition of a good society” (180). Social and Political Views; Political thought, Influences on his; Carlyle; Maurice; St. Elizabeth of Hungary. |