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The Nostalgic Imagination Stefan Collini (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)

The Nostalgic Imagination von Stefan Collini (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)

Zusammenfassung

In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the work of earlier scholars.

The Nostalgic Imagination Zusammenfassung

The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism Stefan Collini (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)

This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the scholarship of earlier historians. Among the major figures examined in detail are T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, William Empson, and Raymond Williams, while there are also original discussions of such figures as Basil Willey, L.C. Knights, Q.D. Leavis, and Richard Hoggart. The Nostalgic Imagination argues that in the period between Eliot's The Sacred Wood and Williams's The Long Revolution, the writings of such critics came to occupy the cultural space left by academic history's retreat into specialized, archive-bound monographs. Their work challenged the assumptions of the Whig interpretation of English history, and entailed a revision of the traditional relations between 'literary history' and 'general history'. Combining close textual analysis with wide-ranging intellectual history, this volume both revises the standard story of the history of literary criticism and illuminates a central feature of the cultural history of twentieth-century Britain.

The Nostalgic Imagination Bewertungen

The best book of literary criticism I read this year... * D.J. Taylor, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2019 *
The Nostalgic Imagination takes its place among Stefan Collini's works as an example par excellence of the rigour that, he teaches us, the critic must exert to remain even-handed: which is in itself the highest praise. * Jack Ingram, Times Literary Supplement *
The Nostalgic Imagination reveals the surprising ways that even the most seemingly ahistorical works from this age of criticism not only depended upon conceptions of history, but also influentially conveyed those conceptions to a wider public. * Guy Ortolano, New York University, Ceercles *
Stefan Collini's The Nostalgic Imagination... is the most dazzling piece of literary criticism I have read in ages an attempt to decode some of the historical assumptions that underlie the way in which early-twentieth-century critics such as Eliot, Leavis and Empson approached their subject, and written with a wit and intelligence that puts most current academic criticism to shame. * D J Taylor, The Tablet *

Über Stefan Collini (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)

Stefan Collini studied at Cambridge and Yale. He taught at the University of Sussex from 1974 to 1986, and thereafter at Cambridge where he became Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature in 2000. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Nation, and an occasional broadcaster. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1: Whig History and the Mind of England 2: Scrutinizing the Present Phase of Human History 3: Science and Capitalism as Background 4: Rationalism, Christianity, and Ambiguity 5: The History of the Reading Public 6: The Long Industrial Revolution 7: Literary history as cultural history Postscript

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR011890150
9780198800170
0198800177
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism Stefan Collini (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)
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Oxford University Press
2019-01-10
258
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