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Common Reading
Critics, Historians, Publics
Taschenbuch von Stefan Collini
Sprache: Englisch

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A series of essays exploring aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, focussing on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership.
A series of essays exploring aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, focussing on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership.
Über den Autor
Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. A frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, and other periodicals both in Britain and the USA, his previous books include Public Moralists (1991), Matthew Arnold: a Critical Portrait (1994, reissued 2007), English Pasts (1999), and Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006), all also published by Oxford University Press. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Part One: Writing Lives

  • 1: On not getting on with it: the criticism of Cyril Connolly

  • 2: Rolling it out: V. S. Pritchett's writing life

  • 3: The Great Seer: Aldous Huxley's visions

  • 4: Performance: the critical authority of Rebecca West

  • 5: Man of letters as hero: the energy of Edmund Wilson

  • 6: Plain speaking: the lives of George Orwell

  • 7: Believing in oneself: the career of Stephen Spender

  • 8: Smacking: the letters of William Empson

  • 9: Disappointment: A. L. Rowse in his diaries

  • 10: Believing in England: Arthur Bryant, historian as man of letters

  • 11: Believing in history: Herbert Butterfield, Christian and Whig

  • 12: The intellectual as realist: the puzzling career of E. H. Carr

  • 13: Enduring passion: E. H. Thompson's reputation

  • 14: Olympian universalism: Perry Anderson as essayist

  • 15: Hegel in green wellies: Roger Scruton's England

  • Part Two: Reading Matters

  • 16: 'The Great Age': the idealizing of Victorian culture

  • 17: Always dying: the idea of the general periodical

  • 18: Boomster and the Quack: the author as celebrity

  • 19: Private reading: the autodidact public

  • 20: The completest mode: the literary critic as hero

  • 21: From deference to diversity: 'culture' in Britain 1945-2000

  • 22: Well connected: biography and intellectual elites

  • 23: National lives: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • 24: HiEdBiz: universities and their publics

  • References

  • Acknowledgements

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199569793
ISBN-10: 0199569797
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Collini, Stefan
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Stefan Collini
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2009
Gewicht: 0,477 kg
Artikel-ID: 108623336
Über den Autor
Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. A frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, and other periodicals both in Britain and the USA, his previous books include Public Moralists (1991), Matthew Arnold: a Critical Portrait (1994, reissued 2007), English Pasts (1999), and Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006), all also published by Oxford University Press. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Part One: Writing Lives

  • 1: On not getting on with it: the criticism of Cyril Connolly

  • 2: Rolling it out: V. S. Pritchett's writing life

  • 3: The Great Seer: Aldous Huxley's visions

  • 4: Performance: the critical authority of Rebecca West

  • 5: Man of letters as hero: the energy of Edmund Wilson

  • 6: Plain speaking: the lives of George Orwell

  • 7: Believing in oneself: the career of Stephen Spender

  • 8: Smacking: the letters of William Empson

  • 9: Disappointment: A. L. Rowse in his diaries

  • 10: Believing in England: Arthur Bryant, historian as man of letters

  • 11: Believing in history: Herbert Butterfield, Christian and Whig

  • 12: The intellectual as realist: the puzzling career of E. H. Carr

  • 13: Enduring passion: E. H. Thompson's reputation

  • 14: Olympian universalism: Perry Anderson as essayist

  • 15: Hegel in green wellies: Roger Scruton's England

  • Part Two: Reading Matters

  • 16: 'The Great Age': the idealizing of Victorian culture

  • 17: Always dying: the idea of the general periodical

  • 18: Boomster and the Quack: the author as celebrity

  • 19: Private reading: the autodidact public

  • 20: The completest mode: the literary critic as hero

  • 21: From deference to diversity: 'culture' in Britain 1945-2000

  • 22: Well connected: biography and intellectual elites

  • 23: National lives: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • 24: HiEdBiz: universities and their publics

  • References

  • Acknowledgements

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199569793
ISBN-10: 0199569797
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Collini, Stefan
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Stefan Collini
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2009
Gewicht: 0,477 kg
Artikel-ID: 108623336
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