Awards
Cover
Common Reading
Critics, Historians, Publics
Stefan Collini
Table of Contents
Part One: Writing Lives
1: On not getting on with it: the criticism of Cyril Connolly
2: Rolling it out: V. S. Pritchett's writing life
3: The Great Seer: Aldous Huxley's visions
4: Performance: the critical authority of Rebecca West
5: Man of letters as hero: the energy of Edmund Wilson
6: Plain speaking: the lives of George Orwell
7: Believing in oneself: the career of Stephen Spender
8: Smacking: the letters of William Empson
9: Disappointment: A. L. Rowse in his diaries
10: Believing in England: Arthur Bryant, historian as man of letters
11: Believing in history: Herbert Butterfield, Christian and Whig
12: The intellectual as realist: the puzzling career of E. H. Carr
13: Enduring passion: E. H. Thompson's reputation
14: Olympian universalism: Perry Anderson as essayist
15: Hegel in green wellies: Roger Scruton's England
Part Two: Reading Matters
16: 'The Great Age': the idealizing of Victorian culture
17: Always dying: the idea of the general periodical
18: Boomster and the Quack: the author as celebrity
19: Private reading: the autodidact public
20: The completest mode: the literary critic as hero
21: From deference to diversity: 'culture' in Britain 1945-2000
22: Well connected: biography and intellectual elites
23: National lives: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
24: HiEdBiz: universities and their publics
References
Acknowledgements
Index
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