The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain

by Guy Ortolano

Book Overview

Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between 'two cultures', the arts and sciences. Yet why did a topic that had long been discussed inspire such ferocious controversy at this particular moment? This book answers that question by recasting this dispute as an ideological conflict between competing visions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052189204X
• ISBN13: 9780521892049
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"