Titlebook: Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire; Matthew Wilson Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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,Leader of a ‘Slightly Terrorist School of Philanthropists’, 1852–1857,. These publications extended scientific and religious justifications of Comte’s utopian vision in tandem with a new international policy. On this basis, Congreve was rising as the centre of an emergent British Positivist school.

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,‘Pope’ of Back-Parlour ‘Ambiguities and Illusions’, 1877–1899,y’. This chapter argues, however, that Congreve instead intended to forge a proletarian church of anti-imperialism. He expected from his ‘congregation’ a full commitment to ‘public duty’, as social reformers seeking to realise Comte’s utopia, the ..

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,A ‘Man of Fiery Temperament’, 1845–1852, as a Wadham College don. By the time Congreve’s prophesies attracted a coterie of disciples there, he had dedicated himself to the serious study of Positivism. This chapter argues that, based on critiques surrounding the Christian church, he saw in Positivism the true purpose and duties of the rising spiritual leaders of modernity.

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,On a ‘Sort of Celebrity or Peculiarity’ of an ‘Atheistical Monastery’, 1866–1877,ducated’ rather than ‘the working class’. This chapter argues that although middle-class allies buoyed his Positivist Society of London and school at Chapel Street Hall, few would commit to what was by 1870, an essentially defunct Church of Humanity. Yet by 1877 it appeared that his congregation was more faithful than ever.

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Book 2021ques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve sought to employ the philosopher’s new science of sociology to dismantle the British Empire. With an aim to realise in its place Comte’s global vision of utopian socialist republican city-states, the

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,Prelude: ‘Who Is RICHARD CONGREVE?’ It Will Be Asked,nuary 1858, and The .’ reviewers presented Congreve as at once enigmatic, outrageous, and uncommonly principled. This instance in which the public began speculating on how Congreve laced his polemics with latent meanings and motivations, affords us an opportunity to examine Positivism through the cr

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,Things About a Highly Strung Evangelist, 1818–1838,of farmhands, the severe conservativism of his father, and a rigid evangelical pedagogy at uncle Walter Bury’s French boarding school. Then at Rugby and Oxford, the young, socially awkward poet-historian embraced the idealism of Percy Bysshe Shelley, accepted the manly Christian duties of S. T. Cole