English Pasts : Essays in History and Culture: Essays in History and CultureOxford University Press, UK, 25.03.1999 - 358 Seiten This is a 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. Aimed at the non-specialist reader. - ;In this collection of engaging and readable essays, Stefan Collini shows how much can be gained from bringing a rigorous historical perspective to some of the most contentious issues in contemporary culture. Whether he is asking what it means to inhabit and possess a `national past', or reflecting on the role of the historian as social critic, whether he is scrutinizing the claims of Cultural Studies or challenging the assumptions about academic research whether he is pondering the future of literary biography or reassessing some of the leading minds in modern British culture, Collini writes with a rare blend of sympathy, sharpness, and wit. Explicitly addressed to the `non-specialist', these essays attempt to make some of the fruits of detailed scholarly research in various fields available to a wider audience. The book will interest (and delight) readers interested in history, literature, and contemporary cultural debate. - |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Trevelyan and After | 9 |
From the Panthéon | 38 |
The Historian | 85 |
Clapham Omnibus | 103 |
John Stuart Mill | 119 |
Anthony Trollope and George Eliot | 144 |
Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell | 161 |
Raymond Williams | 210 |
Research in the Humanities | 233 |
How Not to Do Cultural | 252 |
CamU PLC and SocAnth Ltd | 269 |
John Carey and Noel Annan | 289 |
The Idea of | 305 |
Acknowledgements | 327 |
333 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
academic Acquisitive Society activity admired attempt Autobiography become Berlin bibliometric biography Britain British Cambridge Cannadine career chapter contemporary contrast course Cultural Studies disciplines early economic edition Élie Halévy Eliot elite England English history essays example F. R. Leavis fact figures French G. M. Trevelyan George Eliot Halévy historians Hoggart human ideas intellectual interest Isaiah Berlin John John Stuart Mill journal judgement kind late Leavis less letters Lewis Namier liberal literary criticism Lord Annan mémoire Mill Mill's modern moral Namier nineteenth century Noel Annan non-specialist one's Oxford Panthéon past perhaps period philosopher political professional published question radical readers reading recent reflection remarks Revolution Richard Hoggart role scholarly seems sense social suggest surely Tawney Tawney's theory things thought tion topics tradition Trevelyan Trollope twentieth century values Victorian volume Wallington Hall Williams writing
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