Stefan Collini: English Pasts | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

This is an accessible collection of essays by a leading historian and critic. Subjects include the idea of "the national past," the historian as social critic, the claims of Cultural Studies, the nature of academic "research," the function of the literary biography, and the lives and ideas of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, R. H. Tawney, Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Williams, and Richard Hoggart.

Über den Autor

Stefan Collini is a Reader in Intellectual History and 35 Fulbrooke Road, Cambridge CB3 9EE (home)and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Histories

1: Writing `the National History': Trevelyan and After

2: French Contrasts: From the Panthéon to Poets' Corner

3: Idealizing England: Élie Halévy and Lewis Namier

4: Speaking With Authority: The Historian as Social Critic

5: Victorian Values: from the Clapham Sect to the Clapham Omnibus

Part II: Minds

6: High Mind: John Stuart Mill

7: Literary Minds: Anthony Trollope and George Eliot

8: Young Minds: Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell

9: Moral Mind: R. H. Tawney

10: Liberal Mind: Isaiah Berlin

11: Critical Minds: Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart

Part III: Arguments

12: Against Prodspeak: `Research' in the Humanities

13: Grievance Studies: How not to do Cultural Criticism

14: Company Histories: CamU PLC and SocAnth Ltd

15: With Friends Like These: John Carey and Noel Annan

16: Before Another Tribunal : the Idea of the `Non-specialist Public'

Acknowledgements and References

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1999
Fachbereich:	Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	ab 1949
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198207801
ISBN-10:	0198207808
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Collini, Stefan
Hersteller:	OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Stefan Collini
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.03.1999
Gewicht:	0,508 kg