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- catalog abstract ""In this book, Peter Stansky puts forward a particular view of Britain and its past. What has continually fascinated him about that intriguing country - a source of both admiration and irritation - is the way in which it copes with change. Although as prone to violence and disruption as almost any other developed country, it yet likes to think of itself as calm and peaceful. There is a curious combination of the power of institutions and of group thinking as well as a true celebration of individualism and a deep admiration for eccentricity. There is a valid claim to be the world's oldest democracy and - although perhaps now under more threat than previously - the world's most successful monarchy. Adaptation and preservation are the name of the game." "Peter Stansky writes with wit and perception about areas of British life that he has made his own."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11346738.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""In this book, Peter Stansky puts forward a particular view of Britain and its past. What has continually fascinated him about that intriguing country - a source of both admiration and irritation - is the way in which it copes with change. Although as prone to violence and disruption as almost any other developed country, it yet likes to think of itself as calm and peaceful. There is a curious combination of the power of institutions and of group thinking as well as a true celebration of individualism and a deep admiration for eccentricity. There is a valid claim to be the world's oldest democracy and - although perhaps now under more threat than previously - the world's most successful monarchy. Adaptation and preservation are the name of the game." "Peter Stansky writes with wit and perception about areas of British life that he has made his own."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Biography as History -- The Crumbling Frontiers of History -- Thinking about Biography -- Social History -- Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians -- The First World War -- The British Way with Culture -- William Morris -- Recent Work on William Morris -- Two Modern Biographies of William Morris -- The Last of the Letters -- William Morris as Businessman -- William Morris and C.R. Ashbee -- Martin Conway -- William Morris and Bloomsbury -- Bloomsbury -- Bloomsbury in Sussex -- S.P. Rosenbaum on Bloomsbury -- Bloomsbury Books -- Leonard Woolf -- E.M. Forster -- John Maynard Keynes -- Lytton Strachey -- The 1930s and After -- Isherwood, Auden, and Spender -- Christopher Sykes on Nancy Astor and Evelyn Waugh -- Oswald Mosley and Unity Mitford -- Isaiah Berlin -- George Orwell -- Utopia and Anti-Utopia: William Morris and George Orwell -- Sahib as Victim -- Orwell and the Past -- The Englishness of George Orwell -- Nineteenth Eighty-Four Ten Years Later -- The Other: the Jew -- Anglo-Jew or English/British -- Two Views of Chaim Weizmann -- Nineteenth-Century Jews -- Sergeant Pepper -- Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 352 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper.".
- catalog identifier "0930664191 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0930664205 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Palo Alto, Calif. : Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship,".
- catalog relation "From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog subject "941.081 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Biography as a literary form.".
- catalog subject "Bloomsbury group.".
- catalog subject "DA566.4 .S66 1999".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Morris, William, 1834-1896.".
- catalog subject "Orwell, George, 1903-1950.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Biography as History -- The Crumbling Frontiers of History -- Thinking about Biography -- Social History -- Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians -- The First World War -- The British Way with Culture -- William Morris -- Recent Work on William Morris -- Two Modern Biographies of William Morris -- The Last of the Letters -- William Morris as Businessman -- William Morris and C.R. Ashbee -- Martin Conway -- William Morris and Bloomsbury -- Bloomsbury -- Bloomsbury in Sussex -- S.P. Rosenbaum on Bloomsbury -- Bloomsbury Books -- Leonard Woolf -- E.M. Forster -- John Maynard Keynes -- Lytton Strachey -- The 1930s and After -- Isherwood, Auden, and Spender -- Christopher Sykes on Nancy Astor and Evelyn Waugh -- Oswald Mosley and Unity Mitford -- Isaiah Berlin -- George Orwell -- Utopia and Anti-Utopia: William Morris and George Orwell -- Sahib as Victim -- Orwell and the Past -- The Englishness of George Orwell -- Nineteenth Eighty-Four Ten Years Later -- The Other: the Jew -- Anglo-Jew or English/British -- Two Views of Chaim Weizmann -- Nineteenth-Century Jews -- Sergeant Pepper -- Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.".
- catalog title "From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper : studies in the radical domestic / Peter Stansky.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".