| Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing Into the Future Contributor(s): Prickett, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 052151746X ISBN-13: 9780521517461 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $75.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2009 Annotation: An original investigation into how tradition has developed over the centuries into our modern understanding of the term. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 148 |
| LCCN: 2009004698 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The idea of tradition seems a timeless one, but our modern understanding of the term was actually shaped by the Victorian revival of tradition as a cornerstone of religion, art and culture. Stephen Prickett traces how the word 'tradition' fell out of use in English by the middle of the eighteenth century and how it returned in the nineteenth having radically changed and gained in meaning. Prickett analyses the work of authors who, like Burke, perhaps unexpectedly, avoid use of the concept, as well as those who, like Coleridge, Keble and Newman, who, variously influenced by German Romantics, explored it in detail, and disagreed profoundly with each other as to its implications. An important contribution to literature, history and theology, this sweeping work shows how people manufacture their own idea of truth, customs, or ancient wisdom to make sense of the past in terms of a problematic present. |