In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan
Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture
of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common
Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and
journalists who occupied wider public roles as cultural
commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and
other genres through which they attempted to reach such audiences.
Among the figures discussed are T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, J.B.
Priestley, C.S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh
Trevor-Roper, Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Ignatieff. The
essays explore the variety of such figures' writings - something
that can get overlooked or forgotten when they are treated
exclusively in terms of their contribution to one established or
professional category such as 'novelist' or 'historian' - while
capturing their distinctive writing voices and those indirect or
implicit ways in which they position or reveal themselves in
relation to specific readerships, disputes, and traditions. These
essays engage with recent biographies, collections of letters, and
new editions of classic works, thereby making some of the fruits of
recent scholarly research available to a wider audience. Collini
has been acclaimed as one of the most brilliant essayists of our
time, and this collection shows him at his subtle, perceptive, and
trenchant best. Common Writing will appeal to (and delight) readers
interested in literature, history, and contemporary cultural
debate.
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