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The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain - Couverture rigide

Ortolano, Guy

 
9780521892049: The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 052189204X ISBN 13 : 9780521892049
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between 'two cultures', the arts and sciences. Yet why did a topic that had long been discussed inspire such ferocious controversy at this particular moment? This book answers that question by recasting this dispute as an ideological conflict between competing visions of Britain's past, present, and future. It then connects the controversy to simultaneous arguments about the mission of the university, the methodology of social history, the reasons for 'national decline', and the fate of the former empire. By excavating the political stakes of the 'two cultures' controversy, this book explains the workings of cultural politics during the 1960s more generally, while also revising the meaning of a term that continues to be evoked to this day.

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À propos de l'auteur

Guy Ortolano teaches modern British history at New York University.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052189204X
ISBN 13 
9780521892049
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
308
Coordonnées du fabricant
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