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Our age : English intellectuals between the World Wars--a group portrait / Noel Annan.
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First American edition.
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New York :: Random House,
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1990.
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x, 479 pages ; 25 cm
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Includes index.
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Monograph
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0394542959 9780394542959;
Abstract:
Pt. I: Our age -- The insufferable ideal -- The public schools -- Modernism -- Pacifism -- The change in manners and morals -- The growth of the cult of homosexuality -- The cult flourishes -- Our age reforms the laws -- Reaping the whirlwind -- The
deviants-Evelyn Waugh -- Pt. II: Our age forms political loyalties -- The obsession with Munich -- The roaring forties -- The Cambridge spies -- Pt. III: The impact of the German Renaissance -- Historizismus and history -- Science, art and wealth -- How our age discussed morality -- The deviants-F.R. Leavis -- Pt. IV: Was our age responsible for Britain's decline? -- Our age reforms education -- The dons learn bitter realities -- The deviants : Michael Oakeshott -- Our political leaders -- Our vision of life rejected -- The sixth age shifts.
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