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Author:

Ortolano, Guy.

Title:

The two cultures controversy : science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain / Guy Ortolano.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--Intellectual life--1945-
Snow, C. P.--(Charles Percy),--1905-1980.--Two cultures and the scientific revolution.
Leavis, F. R.--(Frank Raymond),--1895-1978.--Two cultures?
Science and the humanities--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Civilization--1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-281) and index.

Contents:

C.P. Snow and the technocratic liberalism -- F.R. Leavis and the radical liberalism -- A tale of two colleges -- The making of English social history -- The rise of national 'decline' -- Post-colonial developments -- The eclipse of the meritocratic moment.

Summary:

Since C.P. Snow clashed with 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. Ortolano recasts this dispute as an ideological conflict between competing visions of Britain's past, present, and future.

ISBN:

052189204X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780521892049 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)233543834

LCCN:

2008036974

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)