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... Literature and Western Civilisation , The Modern World , vol . II , Realities ( 1972 ) . I have added some material from the number of the History of the Twentieth Century ( ed . A.J.P. Taylor and J.M. Roberts ) which I guest - edited ...
... Literature and Western Civilisation , The Modern World , vol . II , Realities ( 1972 ) . I have added some material from the number of the History of the Twentieth Century ( ed . A.J.P. Taylor and J.M. Roberts ) which I guest - edited ...
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... literature ' , noting both the opportunities and difficulties of doing so . I have always believed that the historian should be concerned both with the ' social sciences ' ( not least demography ) and with literature , sensing that the ...
... literature ' , noting both the opportunities and difficulties of doing so . I have always believed that the historian should be concerned both with the ' social sciences ' ( not least demography ) and with literature , sensing that the ...
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... literature as in history . It is a mistake , in my view - if a favourite one , even among academics to treat history as ' background ' and ' literature ' as text . Both history and literature deal with human experience , common or ...
... literature as in history . It is a mistake , in my view - if a favourite one , even among academics to treat history as ' background ' and ' literature ' as text . Both history and literature deal with human experience , common or ...
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... literature ' and ' art ' , of course , which transcends such framework and bears new ' meanings ' in all new times , being both reinterpreted and reassessed in the process . There is nineteenth - century ' escapist ' literature , too ...
... literature ' and ' art ' , of course , which transcends such framework and bears new ' meanings ' in all new times , being both reinterpreted and reassessed in the process . There is nineteenth - century ' escapist ' literature , too ...
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