The Nostalgic Imagination

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The Nostalgic Imagination is written by Stefan Collini and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0191839981 (ISBN 10) and 9780191839986 (ISBN 13).

This unusual text explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the scholarship of earlier historians.