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The Nostalgic Imagination
- History in English Criticism
Engelsk Paperback
The Nostalgic Imagination
- History in English Criticism
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780198860334
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198860331
Udg. Dato:
30 jan 2020
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
233mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 jan 2020
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