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Stefan Collini was Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at Cambridge until 2014. Educated at Cambridge and Yale, he taught at the University of Sussex for 12 years before moving to Cambridge in 1986. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Nation, and other periodicals. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.eloquently acerbic prose
Robert Irwin, Books of the Year 2016, Times Literary Supplement
His [Collini's] task here, which he performs with admirable aplomb, is to eulogize the passing order ... [an] absorbing book
David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
Collini brings not only a wealth of accumulated cultural, social, and political knowledge to all his criticism, but also perspicacity, common sense, humanity, and humility. These virtues are evident throughout Common Writing.... One of the most astute features of his analysis is the inherent tension he reveals between the roles of academic and intellectual... One of the strengths of Common Writing is the success with which Collini is able to show why his discipline matters... the historical perspective that he brings to his criticism is one of many reasons it is so compelling.
Rafe McGregor, Review 31
Collini offers a series of companionable, entertaining and often insightful considerations of his subjects. He has a gift for evoking a powerful sense of a particular writer's work and personality; his attention to their use of language is usually careful, sensitive and revealing; and he shows a willingness to argue against himself that lends his judgements extra subtlety, interest and weight.
Prospect
elegant and arch series of essays on modern English intellectual life
Oxford Today
at his best he [Collini] transforms our understanding of an author and the world in which he -- and it is almost always he -- works ... it would be worth handing these volumes on to students to give them a keener sense of how to write, for both these authors are brilliant stylists as well as important thinkers; indeed, they make the point ... that to write well is to think well. If they convey nothing more than that -- and, read attentively, they will convey far more -- these books will have served a most useful purpose.
William Whyte, Twentieth Century British History
This collection shows the considerable talents and erudition of one of Britain's finest essayists and writers
Ronán McDonald, Times Higher Education
Collini ... writes with lively wit and insight. Penetrating, down-to-earth, often hilarious, these essays are perfect brain-food
Christopher Hirst, The Independent
One of the finest essayists we have
Jonathan Derbyshire, Prospect