Common writing essays on literary culture and public debate 1st Edition by Stefan Collini ISBN 9780191818776 0191818771

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Author: Stefan Collini

 In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and journalists who occupied wider public roles as cultural commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach such audiences. Among the figures discussed are T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, C.S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Ignatieff. The essays explore the variety of such figures’ writings – something that can get overlooked or forgotten when they are treated exclusively in terms of their contribution to one established or professional category such as ‘novelist’ or ‘historian’ – while capturing their distinctive writing voices and those indirect or implicit ways in which they position or reveal themselves in relation to specific readerships, disputes, and traditions. These essays engage with recent biographies, collections of letters, and new editions of classic works, thereby making some of the fruits of recent scholarly research available to a wider audience. Collini has been acclaimed as one of the most brilliant essayists of our time, and this collection shows him at his subtle, perceptive, and trenchant best. Common Writing will appeal to (and delight) readers interested in literature, history, and contemporary cultural debate.

Table of contents:

 Part I: Literary Culture
1. Modernists: Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot
2. Hierophants: C. Day-Lewis and Graham Greene
3. Notables: J.B. Priestley, C.S. Lewis, Maurice Bowra
4. Critics (I): William Empson and F.R Leavis
5. Critics (II): Lionel Trilling and Raymond Williams
6. Realists: ‘The Movement’, Kingsley Amis, David Lodge
Interlude
7. Media: Little Magazines, the TLS, New Left Review, Radio Four
Part II: Public Debate
8. Moralists: J.L. and Barbara Hammond, R.H. Tawney and Richard Hoggart, R.M. Titmuss
9. Migrants: Nikolaus Pevsner, Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Gellner
10. Historian-intellectuals? Eileen Power, Herbert Butterfield, Hugh Trevor-Roper
11. New Orwells’? Christopher Hitchens, Tony Judt, Timothy Garton Ash
12. Politician-intellectuals? Roy Jenkins and Michael Ignatieff
13. Social Analysts: ‘Aspiration’, Attitudes, Inequality

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