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Albion | 2002

Freelance Writers and the Changing Terrain of Intellectual Life in Britain, 1880-1980

Thomas William Heyck

The terrain of British intellectual life in the twentieth century was dominated by two major features: freelance writers and university scholars. At the elite level, as Noel Annan showed, the two types—independent thinkers and academics—can be treated as one class, linked by personal connections and by common attitudes arising largely from the old school tie. However, when intellectuals beyond the elite stratum are surveyed, it becomes clear that the fortunes of these two features of the intellectual landscape differed sharply. The university teachers grew rapidly in number and made themselves into what Harold Perkin calls “the key profession.” But as John Gross has contended, freelance writers, despite a rich heritage from the nineteenth century, seemed, especially in their own eyes, to form an old and decaying mountain range. From 1880 to 1980 freelance writers experienced a pervasive and intensifying sense of crisis in their trade and in their cultural role. John Wain, a successful novelist and critic, stated the matter plainly in 1973: contemplation of the difficulties of “being an author,” he said, always threw him into “a black depression in which I could slash my wrists.” How can one explain the pessimism of freelance writers, their sense of being increasingly marginalized? Were their complaints simply habitual expressions of a writerly pose common since the romantic period? After all, many of the broad social and cultural trends in Britain between 1880 and 1980 should have been advantageous to independent writers.


The American Historical Review | 1997

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951.@@@The Expansive Moment: The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918-1970.

Thomas William Heyck; George W. Stocking; Jack Goody

Introduction 1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930-1939: social reform in the colonies 2. Training for the field: the sorcerers apprentices 3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red 4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard 5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others 6. The Oxford Group 7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa 8. Personal contributions 9. Concluding remarks Appendices Notes List of references Index.


History of European Ideas | 1982

Recent works in Victorian intellectual history

Thomas William Heyck

(1982). Recent works in Victorian intellectual history. History of European Ideas: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 107-115.


The American Historical Review | 1991

The politics of literary reputation : the making and claiming of "St. George" Orwell

Thomas William Heyck; John Rodden


The American Historical Review | 1997

The Expansive Moment: The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918-1970.

Thomas William Heyck; George W. Stocking; Jack Goody


Journal of British Studies | 1998

Myths and Meanings of Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century British National Identity

Thomas William Heyck


Journal of British Studies | 1980

From Men of Letters to Intellectuals: The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Nineteenth-Century England

Thomas William Heyck


History of European Ideas | 1987

The idea of a university in Britain, 1870–1970

Thomas William Heyck


The American Historical Review | 1977

The dimensions of British Radicalism : the case of Ireland, 1874-95

Matthew R. Temmel; Thomas William Heyck


Journal of British Studies | 1974

Home Rule, Radicalism, and the Liberal Party, 1886-1895

Thomas William Heyck

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University of Cambridge

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University of Texas at Austin

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