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Speaking of Universities by Stefan Collini 9781786631657
Booksplease Price: £25.33In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to... -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini
Booksplease Price: £24.99This 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... -
Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait by Stefan Collini 9780199541881
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £35.76Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive influence on modern thinking about literature and criticism and his work has become an inescapable... -
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain by Stefan Collini 9780199291052
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £59.88A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in... -
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Speaking of Universities by Stefan Collini 9781786631657 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £4.71In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to... -
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain by Stefan Collini 9780199216659
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £39.94A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini 9780198800170
Booksplease Price: £39.08This 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... -
English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture by Stefan Collini 9780198207801
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £47.39In this collection of engaging and readable essays, Stefan Collini shows how much can be gained from bringing a rigorous historical perspective to some of the most contentious issues in contemporary... -
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics by Stefan Collini 9780199569793
RRP: £37.49Booksplease Price: £31.89In this 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: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198758969
Booksplease Price: £55.04In 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: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
Booksplease Price: £31.27In 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... -
Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 by Stefan Collini 9780521630184
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Economy, Polity, and Society and its companion volume History, Religion, and Culture bring together major new essays on British intellectual history by many of the leading scholars of the period,... -
Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 by Stefan Collini 9780521639781
Booksplease Price: £32.12Economy, Polity, and Society and its companion volume History, Religion, and Culture bring together major new essays on British intellectual history by many of the leading scholars of the period,... -
History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 by Stefan Collini 9780521626385
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £60.76Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its... -
History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 by Stefan Collini 9780521626392
Booksplease Price: £32.12Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its... -
That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History by Stefan Collini 9780521277709
Booksplease Price: £32.42In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science... -
Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930 by Stefan Collini 9780198204220
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £52.92This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on... -
Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880-1914 by Stefan Collini 9780521274081
Booksplease Price: £32.12In this wide-ranging book, Stefan Collini deals with the relationship between Liberalism and sociology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. He discusses in particular the crucial... -
Into the Melée: Culture/Politics/Intellectuals by Francis Mulhern 9781804293348
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Into the Melee probes the mercurial relationship between culture and politics through versatile critical writing on Conrad, Orwell, Sartre, Raymond Williams and Roberto Schwarz, among others. The... -
Dark Academia: Despair in the Neoliberal University by Peter Fleming 9780745341064
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological... -
Dark Academia: Despair in the Neoliberal University by Peter Fleming
Booksplease Price: £85.65'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological... -
Two Cultures?: The Significance of C. P. Snow by F. R. Leavis 9781107617353
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.84In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as... -
Selected Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and... -
Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 by Robert Adcock 9780691128740
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of... -
The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.14The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has... -
The Public Intellectual Helen Small (Pembroke College, Oxford) 9780631231981
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £38.81New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.About the AuthorHelen Small is Fellow in... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson 9780198184232
RRP: £137.50Booksplease Price: £115.41English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during... -
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale by Dai Smith
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full... -
Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies by S. Owen 9780230545458
Booksplease Price: £46.28In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies... -
Theatres of Memory: v. 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel 9781859840771
Booksplease Price: £35.76In this widely acclaimed book, Raphael Samuel takes issue with the claim that our obsession with heritage is a symptom of national decay. He argues rather that we live in an expanding historical... -
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience by Susan Pedersen 9780300212204
Booksplease Price: £45.49When British women demanded the vote in the years before the First World War, they promised to use political rights to remake their country and their world. This is the story of Eleanor Rathbone, the... -
Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
Booksplease Price: £35.79When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western... -
Collected Critical Writings by Geoffrey Hill 9780199234486
Booksplease Price: £44.86The Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill gathers more than forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form, and also adds much new work. It will serve as the canonical... -
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 6, The Nineteenth Century, c.1830-1914 by M. A. R. Habib 9781316606100
Booksplease Price: £45.12In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast... -
Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic by Marina MacKay
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £28.08Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer... -
Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies by S. Owen 9781349360956
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.75In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies... -
English: Shared Futures by Robert Eaglestone 9781843845164
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.22Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education. The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is... -
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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture by Mark S. Micale 9780804731164 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £7.37During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched... -
Malthus: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Winch 9780199670413
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.35Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short...