C.P. Snow [electronic resource] : The Dynamics of Hope /
Tredell, N.author.
Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on References; Note on Dates; Introduction; 1 A Multifarious Life; 2 Early Novels: Death under Sail, New Lives for Old and The Search; 3 Strangers and Brothers (1): Time of Hope, George Passant, The Conscience of the Rich and The Light and the Dark; 4 Strangers and Brothers (2): The Masters, The New Men, Homecomings and The Affair; 5 Strangers and Brothers (3): Corridors of Power, The Sleep of Reason and Last Things; 6 Late Novels: The Malcontents, In Their Wisdom and A Coat of Varnish
7 Non-Fiction: Science, Culture and Government - The Two Cultures and Science and Government8 Non-Fiction: Biography, Literature and Science - Variety of Men, Trollope, The Realists and The Physicists; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today.
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.