The Cultural Critics

ISBN-13: 9781032645353 / Twarda / 2023 / 246 str.

Lesley Johnson

Opis

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years. The author traces this tradition through the writings of various English intellectuals, using Matthew Arnold, F. R. Leavis and Raymond Williams to elucidate the concept.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Intellectual and their Ideas 2. Matthew Arnold 3. Arnold’s Contemporaries 4. Entr’acte: 1890-1920 5. F. R. Leavis 6. Leavis’ Contemporaries 7. Raymond Williams 8. Williams’ Contemporaries 9. Conclusion: Cultural Studies

O autorze

Lesley Johnson AM FAHA is Professor Emeritus of both Griffith University and the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She was a Deputy Vice Chancellor for the last 14 years of her academic career. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities of which she was President for 3 years and on the Council for 8 years from 2010 to 2017. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2010. She is considered a leading figure in cultural studies in Australia, a field in which she began working in 1973. Her research interests are in the field of the history of Australian cultural institutions and, currently in the history of the humanities in Australia.