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Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice.

The first comprehensive history of 'English' as an academic discipline in Britain, covering the d...

On Liberty has become celebrated as the most powerful defence of the freedom of the individual, a...

This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that ...

Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recen...

This is an accessible collection of essays by a leading historian and critic. Subjects include th...

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Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive ...

Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recen...

In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects o...

The first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain. Le...

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In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to ...

Umberto Eco, international best-selling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings toget...

In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and ...

A devastating analysis of what is happening to our universitiesDoes 'marketization' threaten to d...

Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time t...

This edition establishes the authoritative text of Culture and Anarchy alongside Arnold's three m...

This is the first scholarly edition of William Empson's The Structure of Complex Words (1951), a ...

A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Ab...

In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumpti...

Three new essays by the internationally recognised humanists Onora O''Neill, Stefan Collini and R...