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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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Josh Labass
reviewed Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics on January 18, 2015
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics
I started reading this book believing it would be a stock standard autobiography. Well, it wasn't. And Joseph Conrad himself tells you that it wouldn't be so. However, what you do get is memories of people and periods in Conrad's life that shaped and developed the man. This doesn't tell the man's life story but it does tell the story of his life. I was grateful also for the stories of Conrad's uncle as well and of the genesis of his first novel, Almeyer's Folly. This book is a must for Joseph Conrad aficionados like me.
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