English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780198207801 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 360 str.

Stefan Collini

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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