Departure and Arrival Times
Sheldon Rothblatt, 18 August 1983
The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance
by John Kenyon.
Weidenfeld, 322 pp., £16.50, March 1983,0 297 78081 6 Show More
by John Kenyon.
Weidenfeld, 322 pp., £16.50, March 1983,
“... of Romanticism, the neglect of Lecky and new-wave social science, the scatological treatment of Thomas Carlyle. Other omissions may be added. Frederic Maitland is not very well realised, which is strange given the historians (Kenyon among them) who believe in his greatness. Maitland’s relationship with Leslie Stephen and avid interest in Meredith’s ... ”