The Nostalgic Imagination
History in English Criticism
Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-880017-0 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-880017-0 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.01.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 238 mm |
Gewicht | 526 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-880017-7 / 0198800177 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-880017-0 / 9780198800170 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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