Preview
This chapter studies how British culture served as a form of counter-history, revealing that George Orwell and Herbert Read visualised a naturalised cultural habitus as a safeguard against a threatening history. On the other hand, H.G. Wells envisioned a post-historical and rationally administered culture as a cure to the violent crisis of the historical present. The discussion then examines the works of Orwell, Read, Wells, Robert Graves and Ezra Pound in 1941. This is followed by a study of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, her posthumously published novel.
Keywords: British culture; counter-history; cultural habitus; threatening history; George Orwell; Herbert Read; H.G. Wells; Virginia Woolf
Chapter. 7072 words.
Subjects: Literary Studies (20th Century onwards)
Go to University Press Scholarship Online » abstract
Full text: subscription required
How to subscribe Recommend to my Librarian
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Please, subscribe or login to access all content.