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Author:   Stefan Collini (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.140kg
ISBN:  

9780198800187

ISBN 10:   0198800185
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   10 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Beauty and the Footnote PART I: CULTURAL CONTEXTS 1: The Ascendancy of Literature 2: The Authority of Classics 3: The Imperium of History PART II: INSTITUTIONAL STORIES 4: A Scottish Prologue 5: Nineteenth-Century Realities 6: London 7: Civic Traditions 8: Oxford 9: Cambridge 10: Colleges for Women 11: Schools PART III: FOUNDING FIGURES 12: The Professorial Squad 13: Matthew Arnold and John Churton Collins 14: A. C. Bradley and George Saintsbury 15: Walter Raleigh and Arthur Quiller-Couch 16: John Bailey: Criticism as a Vocation PART IV: PROFESSIONAL FORMS 17: Normal Scholarship 18: Local Varieties 19: The English Association 20: The Newbolt Report PART V: MODERN TIMES 21: Insurgents 22: Normal Criticism 23: Cross-Currents 24: Meridian 25: Scenes from Departmental Life 26: Doubts Appendix I: Existing Accounts: A Bibliographical Essay Appendix II: Professors of English Appendix III: Staff Numbers Index

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Stefan Collini was educated at Cambridge and Yale. Following a Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, he was Lecturer, then Reader, in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex 1974-86; Lecturer, then Reader, then Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge 1986-2014. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and Guardian.

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