Stefan Collini studied at Cambridge and Yale. He taught at the University of Sussex from 1974 to 1986, and thereafter at Cambridge where he became Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature in 2000. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Nation, and an occasional broadcaster. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.
Introduction
1: Whig History and the Mind of England
2: Scrutinizing the Present Phase of Human History
3: Science and Capitalism as Background
4: Rationalism, Christianity, and Ambiguity
5: The History of the Reading Public
6: The Long Industrial Revolution
7: Literary history as cultural history
Postscript