James Anthony Froude - Brady, Ciaran (Professor of History, Professor of History, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin)

James Anthony Froude is among the most frequently cited but gravely misunderstood figures in Victorian intellectual life. This is the first coherent survey of Froude's intellectual life from his early days as an Oxford enfant terrible to his final years as a pillar of the establishment and unapologetic reactionary.