English pasts : essays in history and culture / Stefan Collini.

Author/creator Collini, Stefan, 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Descriptionviii, 348 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

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'.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [328]-332) and index.
LCCN 98047247
ISBN0198207794 (hb)
ISBN0198207808 (pb)

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Joyner General Stacks DA1 .C85 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold