More Adventures With Britannia

by Louis, William Roger

• ISBN13: 9780292747098
• ISBN10: 0292747098
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.

Table of Contents

List of Authors	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
Wm. Roger Louis
The Significance of the Frontier in British History	13	(18)
Linda Colley
The British Revolution in America	31	(14)
Jack P. Greene
Queen Victoria's Other Island	45	(22)
Walter L. Arnstein
Was It Possible to Be a Good Catholic, a Good Englishman, and a Good Historian?	67	(16)
Reba Soffer
Henry James: The Victorian Scene	83	(16)
R. W. B. Lewis
In Praise of Kipling	99	(16)
Thomas Pinney
Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press	115	(18)
S. P. Rosenbaum
Beyond Gossip: D. H. Lawrence's Writing Life	133	(18)
Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Orwell and the Business of Biography	151	(18)
Bernard Crick
Nineteen Eighty-Four Ten Years Later	169	(16)
Peter Stansky
Mountbatten Revisited	185	(18)
Philip Ziegler
Myths about the Approach to Indian Independence	203	(18)
John Grigg
``A Victorian Tory'': Churchill, the Americans, and Self Determination	221	(20)
Warren F. Kimball
``That Will Depend on Who Writes the History'': Winston Churchill as His Own Historian	241	(14)
John Ramsden
British Historians and the Debate over the ``Postwar Consensus''	255	(10)
Paul Addison
Our Age Revisited	265	(16)
Noel Annan
The Rise and Fall of Party Government in Britain and the United States, 1945--1996	281	(22)
Samuel H. Beer
Who Ran the British Empire?	303	(16)
John W. Cell
From Africa to Empire	319	(14)
Antony Hopkins
British and North American University Presses	333	(12)
Joanna Hitchcock
British Studies at The University of Texas, 1975--1998	345