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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stefan Collini |
| ISBN: | 0198207794 9780198207795 0198207808 9780198207801 |
| OCLC Number: | 40113468 |
| Description: | viii, 348 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Writing 'the national history': Trevelyan and after -- French contrasts: from the Panthéon to Poets' corner -- Idealizing England: Élie Halévy and Lewis Namier -- Speaking with authority: the historian as social critic -- Victorian values: from the Clapham sect to the Clapham omnibus -- High mind: John Stuart Mill -- Literary minds: Anthony Trollope and George Eliot -- Young Minds: Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell -- Moral mind: R.H. Tawney -- Liberal mind: Isaiah Berlin -- Critical minds: Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart -- Against Prodspeak: 'research' in the humanities --Grievance studies: how not to do cultural criticism -- Company histories: CamU PLC and SocAnth Ltd. -- With friends like these: John Carey and Noel Annan -- Before another tribunal: the idea of the 'non-specialist public'. |
| Responsibility: | Stefan Collini. |
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fresh and topical. At his best - and these essays show him at his best - Collini is one of the sharpest observers and most mordant critics in English academic life. Felipe Fernandesz-Armesto, Weekend Review, The Independent Read more...
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