Heresies and heretics
memories of the twentieth century
Watson, George.
creator
text
Electronic books.
enk
Cambridge
Lutterworth Press
2013
monographic
eng
1 online resource (192 pages)
In this enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the cultural heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results. Watson provides us with examples of 'true', original heretics, from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who asserted that his study of the remote past had made a radical of him, rather than any influence of modernism, to others such as Douglas Adams, whom Watson knew as an undergraduate. Watson forces us to question various long-cherished political and intellectual assumptions in his witty and conversational style. Is.
""Front cover ""; ""Other Titles by George Watson from The Lutterworth Press ""; ""Title page ""; ""The Lutterworth Press""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""I Heresies ""; ""1. Who Are the Heretics?""; ""2. The War of the Canon""; ""3. A View from the Basement""; ""4. The Virtue of Verse ""; ""5. The Privilege of Absurdity""; ""6. The Best of British""; ""7. Making History""; ""8. Shooting the President""; ""9. Commonplaces""; ""10. No Marx for Engels""; ""II More Heresies ""; ""11. Americanophilia""; ""12. The Americanness of Poetry""; ""13. The Rain in Spain""
""14. Educating the Prime Minister""""15. The Indictment of the Germans""; ""16. Thoughts on a Dead Elephant""; ""17. The Sudden Death of Imperial Guilt""; ""III The Heretics ""; ""18. P.G. Wodehouse""; ""19. The Forgotten Churchill""; ""20. Arthur Quiller-Couch""; ""21. E.M. Forster""; ""22. C.P. Snow""; ""23. Hugh Sykes Davies""; ""24. Angus Wilson""; ""25. Moses Finley""; ""26. Hugh Trevor-Roper""; ""27. Frank Kermode""; ""28. Douglas Adams""; ""You might also be interested in other titles by George Watson ""; ""Back cover ""
by George Watson.
Catholic Church
Doctrines
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church.
Christian heresies
Christian heretics
RELIGION
History
Christian heresies
Christian heretics
Theology, Doctrinal
PHILOSOPHY / General
BT1315.3 .W38 2013eb
273.90922
(DLC) 2013455247
9780718841010
0718841018
9780718841027
0718841026
617381 MIL
4855AF67-CBDF-4A2B-9B0D-46BE86D1F1D4 OverDrive, Inc.
22573/ctt1cg4p16 JSTOR
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=813515
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=813515
E7B
130322
20200709060153.0
ocn841170136
eng