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    Irrepressible adventures with Britannia : personalities, politics and culture in Britain / edited by Wm. Roger Louis.

    Contributor(s): Louis, William Roger, 1936-Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Austin, Tex. : I.B. Tauris ; Harry Ransom Center, 2013Description: xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1780767978; 9781780767970; 1780767986; 9781780767987Subject(s): Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Intellectual life | Politics and government | Great Britain | Literarisches Leben | Großbritannien | 1900-1999Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung.DDC classification: 942.08 UKP LOC classification: DA588 | .I77 2013DA32.A1 | I77 2013
    Contents:
    Introduction / Wm. Roger Louis -- Prince Albert / Rosemary Hill -- One Man's Raj / John Spurling -- The Economist / Aram Bakshian, Jr. -- Editing the English Historical Review / Georg Bernard -- Michael Roberts and the BBC / Andrew Roberts -- David Astor and the Observer / Jeremy Lewis -- John Keats / Ferdinand Mount -- Anthony Trollope / Albert J. Beveridge III -- Readers, Writers, and Reputations / Philip Waller -- Robert Graves' War Poems / Tom Palaima -- Bloomsbury Reassessed / Paul Levy -- Carrington Revisited / Anne Chisholm -- Edmund Gosse and J.R. Ackerley / Steven Isenberg -- Father / Brian Urquhart -- Ivy Compton-Burnett / Richard Davenport-Hines -- Dan Jacobson / Geoffrey V. Davis -- The World of Sherlock Holmes / David L. Leal -- Tarzan / Christopher Benfey -- Harry Potter / Susan Napier -- The Black Hole of Calcutta / David Washbrook -- Britain and Japan / Sheldon Garon -- The Breakup of Britain / Linda Colley -- A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper / Adam Sisman -- Margaret Thatcher's Impact on Historical Writing / Brian Harrison -- Tony Benn / Jad Adams -- Lady Thatcher / Geoffrey Wheatcroft -- Elizabeth II / Max Hastings -- British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2013.
    Summary: "Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history and politics. Together, they provide a unique insight into the pivotal themes, political, literary and cultural, which have shaped British state and society. Including a comparison of A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman, a new appraisal of Prince Albert by Rosemary Hill, an assessment of Keats by Ferdinand Mount and a Diamond Jubilee portrait of Elizabeth II by Max Hastings, this book provides a rich mix of original ideas, historical and literary allusion, personality and anecdote, which together provide an intellectual adventure into the mainsprings of modern British and international society."--Provided by publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references.

    Introduction / Wm. Roger Louis -- Prince Albert / Rosemary Hill -- One Man's Raj / John Spurling -- The Economist / Aram Bakshian, Jr. -- Editing the English Historical Review / Georg Bernard -- Michael Roberts and the BBC / Andrew Roberts -- David Astor and the Observer / Jeremy Lewis -- John Keats / Ferdinand Mount -- Anthony Trollope / Albert J. Beveridge III -- Readers, Writers, and Reputations / Philip Waller -- Robert Graves' War Poems / Tom Palaima -- Bloomsbury Reassessed / Paul Levy -- Carrington Revisited / Anne Chisholm -- Edmund Gosse and J.R. Ackerley / Steven Isenberg -- Father / Brian Urquhart -- Ivy Compton-Burnett / Richard Davenport-Hines -- Dan Jacobson / Geoffrey V. Davis -- The World of Sherlock Holmes / David L. Leal -- Tarzan / Christopher Benfey -- Harry Potter / Susan Napier -- The Black Hole of Calcutta / David Washbrook -- Britain and Japan / Sheldon Garon -- The Breakup of Britain / Linda Colley -- A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper / Adam Sisman -- Margaret Thatcher's Impact on Historical Writing / Brian Harrison -- Tony Benn / Jad Adams -- Lady Thatcher / Geoffrey Wheatcroft -- Elizabeth II / Max Hastings -- British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2013.

    "Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history and politics. Together, they provide a unique insight into the pivotal themes, political, literary and cultural, which have shaped British state and society. Including a comparison of A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman, a new appraisal of Prince Albert by Rosemary Hill, an assessment of Keats by Ferdinand Mount and a Diamond Jubilee portrait of Elizabeth II by Max Hastings, this book provides a rich mix of original ideas, historical and literary allusion, personality and anecdote, which together provide an intellectual adventure into the mainsprings of modern British and international society."--Provided by publisher.

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