From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper : studies in the radical domestic / Peter Stansky.

Author: Stansky, Peter, 1932-

Imprint:Palo Alto, Calif. : Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, c1999.

Descriptionviii, 352 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:BIOGRAPHY AS HISTORY: The crumbling frontiers of history -- Thinking about biography -- Social history -- Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians -- The First World War -- The British way with culture -- WILLIAM MORRIS: Recent work on William Morris -- Two modern biographies of William Morris -- The last of the letters -- William Morris as businessman -- William Morris and C.R. Ashbee -- Martin Conway -- William Morris and Bloomsbury -- BLOOMSBURY: Bloomsbury in Sussex -- S.P. Rosenbaum on Bloomsbury -- Bloomsbury books -- Leonard Woolf -- E.M. Forster -- John Maynard Keynes -- Lytton Strachey -- THE 1930S AND AFTER: Ishewood, Auden, and Spender -- Christopher Sykes on Nancy Astor and Evelyn Waugh -- Oswald Mosley and Unity Mitford -- Isaiah Berlin -- GEORGE ORWELL: Utopia and anti-Utopia: William Morris and George Orwell -- Sahib as victim -- Orwell and the past -- The Englishness of George Orwell -- Nineteen Eighty-Four ten years later -- THE OTHER: THE JEW: Anglo-Jew or English/British -- Two views of Chaim Weizmann - Nineteenth-century Jews -- SERGEANT PEPPER: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-336) and index.

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