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- Book Title
- English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture
- ISBN
- 9780198207801
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines, History
- Publication Name
- English Pasts : Essays in History and Culture
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Study & Teaching, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198207808
ISBN-13
9780198207801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
778927
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Publication Name
English Pasts : Essays in History and Culture
Language
English
Subject
Study & Teaching, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-047247
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
'English pasts succeeds. Its form is improvisatory, its subjects are other people's books, but its thematic unity is the product of a creative and refined critical intelligence. There is a revealing sense of the ambiguities of the past and the complexities of historical values. Above all there is an ability to read other historians' work, and to perceive wider meanings whilst locating it within a grander intellectual vision'The Historical Journal, Vol.44'Throughout there remains a freshness and richness of historical reference which delights and engages' The Historical Journal, Vol.44'Collini is serious but never solemn ... Not that he settle for 'the robustly plain-man style' as an alternative to academic pompostity. His lightness of touch is like throwing open the windows after the fug of cultural theory since Raymond Williams.'David Gervais, The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 30'Collini's public celebration of the under-appreciated scholarship of editors and annotators is a service to the humanities.'Canadian Journal of History'With English Pasts ... he has collected, combined, and expanded a number of reviews into sixteen essays which display the distinctive concerns, and exhuberant wit, he brings to the subjects of intellectual culture and of academic life.'Canadian Journal of History'Collini is a notably talented essayist and reviewer.'Canadian Journal of History'what he writes best about is intellectual imposture, which he skewers again and again in the pages of this coruscating collection ... If this is intellectual history as it should be written, let us have more of it.'Roy Foster, Financial Times'brilliant, subtle and erudite essays ... essays in the best sense.'The EconomistAn example of the merits of his own style: of a firm grasp on the way tone illustrates the mind at work behind it, and an understanding of the power and limits of intellectuality as against other imaginative demands. - Richard Hoggart, 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., 'Throughout there remains a freshness and richness of historical reference which delights and engages' The Historical Journal, Vol.44, 'Collini is serious but never solemn ... Not that he settle for 'the robustly plain-man style' as an alternative to academic pompostity. His lightness of touch is like throwing open the windows after the fug of cultural theory since Raymond Williams.'David Gervais, The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 30, An example of the merits of his own style: of a firm grasp on the way tone illustrates the mind at work behind it, and an understanding of the power and limits of intellectuality as against other imaginative demands. - Richard Hoggart, 'Collini is serious but never solemn ... Not that he settle for 'therobustly plain-man style' as an alternative to academic pompostity. Hislightness of touch is like throwing open the windows after the fug of culturaltheory since Raymond Williams.'David Gervais, The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 30, 'With English Pasts ... he has collected, combined, and expanded a number of reviews into sixteen essays which display the distinctive concerns, and exhuberant wit, he brings to the subjects of intellectual culture and of academic life.'Canadian Journal of History, 'Collini's public celebration of the under-appreciated scholarship of editors and annotators is a service to the humanities.'Canadian Journal of History, 'what he writes best about is intellectual imposture, which he skewers again and again in the pages of this coruscating collection ... If this is intellectual history as it should be written, let us have more of it.'Roy Foster, Financial Times, ... what he writes best about is intellectual imposture, which he skewersagain and again in the pages of this coruscating collection./ If this isintellectual history as it should be written, let us have more of it./ RoyFoster, Financial Times/ 24/04/99., An example of the merits of his own style: of a firm grasp on the way toneillustrates the mind at work behind it, and an understanding of the power andlimits of intellectuality as against other imaginative demands. - RichardHoggart, 'English pasts succeeds. Its form is improvisatory, its subjects areother people's books, but its thematic unity is the product of a creative andrefined critical intelligence. There is a revealing sense of the ambiguities ofthe past and the complexities of historical values. Above all there is anability to read other historians' work, and to perceive wider meanings whilstlocating it within a grander intellectual vision'The Historical Journal, Vol.44, 'With English Pasts ... he has collected, combined, and expanded a numberof reviews into sixteen essays which display the distinctive concerns, andexhuberant wit, he brings to the subjects of intellectual culture and ofacademic life.'Canadian Journal of History, 'Collini's public celebration of the under-appreciated scholarship of editors and annotators is a service to the humanities.' Canadian Journal of History, "[T]he arguments are important, provoking, and driven along by an acerbic wit. it will be read with profit by scholars, students, and anyone else interested in the questions it raises....[I]t made me ponder and it made me laugh--out loud."--History, 'English pasts succeeds. Its form is improvisatory, its subjects are other people's books, but its thematic unity is the product of a creative and refined critical intelligence. There is a revealing sense of the ambiguities of the past and the complexities of historical values. Above allthere is an ability to read other historians' work, and to perceive wider meanings whilst locating it within a grander intellectual vision'The Historical Journal, Vol.44
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
941
Table Of Content
IntroductionPart I: Histories1. Writing 'the National History': Trevelyan and After2. French Contrasts: From the Panthéon to Poets' Corner3. Idealizing England: Élie Halévy and Lewis Namier4. Speaking With Authority: The Historian as Social Critic5. Victorian Values: from the Clapham Sect to the Clapham OmnibusPart II: Minds6. High Mind: John Stuart Mill7. Literary Minds: Anthony Trollope and George Eliot8. Young Minds: Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell9. Moral Mind: R. H. Tawney10. Liberal Mind: Isaiah Berlin11. Critical Minds: Raymond Williams and Richard HoggartPart III: Arguments12. Against Prodspeak: 'Research' in the Humanities13. Grievance Studies: How not to do Cultural Criticism14. Company Histories: CamU PLC and SocAnth Ltd15. With Friends Like These: John Carey and Noel Annan16. Before Another Tribunal : the Idea of the 'Non-specialist Public'Acknowledgements and ReferencesIndex
Synopsis
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., 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., 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.
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