Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain

by Louis, Wm. Roger

• ISBN13: 9781780767970
• ISBN10: 1780767978
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-02-27
• Publisher: INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP

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.

Author Biography

Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. His books include Imperialism at Bay (1976) The British Empire in the Middle East (1984), and Ends of British Imperialism (2006). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire. In 2001 he was President of the American Historical Association an in 2013 he was awarded the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors 
Introduction 
1. Prince Albert
2. One Man's Raj 
3. The Economist 
4. English Historical Review 
5. MR and the BBC 
6. David Astor and the Observer 
7. John Keats
8. Robert Graves 
9. Ivy Compton-Burnett 
10. Dan Jacobson 
11. Bloomsbury Reassessed 
12. Carrington Revisited 
13. Anthony Trollope 
14. Edmund Gosse and J. R. Ackerley 
15. Father 
16. Sherlock Holmes 
17. Tarzan
18. Harry Potter 
19. The Black Hole of Calcutta 
20. Prisons 
21. Britain and Japan
22. A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper 
23. Mrs. Thatcher 
24. The Historians and Margaret Thatcher 
25. Tony Benn 
26. Elizabeth II
27. The Breakup of Britain
28. British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975–2013