Includes bibliographical references. Includes lectures from the British Academy in 2008.
Contents:
Was Shakespeare an Essex man? / Jonathan Bate (Shakespeare Lecture) -- Ending the Russian Revolution: reflections on Soviet history and its interpreters / Sheila Fitzpatrick (Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture) -- Deities, devils, and dams: Elizabeth I, Dover Harbour and the family of love / David Wootton (Raleigh Lecture on History) -- Auden unparadized / Seamus Perry (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry) -- The Alfredian project and its aftermath: rethinking the literary history of the ninth and tenth centuries / Malcol Godden (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture) -- Instruments of development: randomisation in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development / Angus Deaton (Keynes Lecture in Economics) -- Continuity and change in a Wessex landscape / Barry Cunliffe (Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture) -- Wordsworth and the Druids / Matthew Campbell (Warton Lecture on English Poetry) -- Living apart, living together? The role of intergroup contact in social integration / Miles Hewstone (2006 British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture) -- Reason and identity / Bhikhu Parekh (Isaiah Berlin Lecture) -- A genealogy og the modern state / Quentin Skinner (British Academy Lecture).
Series:
Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 162
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