Capitalism, Culture and Catastrophe
Lawrence Levine and the Opening of Cultural History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10024323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J-C Agnew (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 772-791 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4486415 |
| OpenAlex | W2320055021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Those having lamps will pass them on to others. —Plato, The Republic Although I never had the good fortune to be Lawrence W. Levine's student, I have taken away so much from his work over the years that it feels as if I had been. I think of myself as one of the many anonymous graduates of the correspondence school that Levine, unbeknownst to himself, has conducted over the past several decades with readers of his work. By “correspondence” I mean to suggest the lively internal dialogue—the questions, ripostes, and epiphanies—that all great historical writing and thinking stimulates in the reader. “Writing,” Levine has said (quoting the eighteenth-century novelist Laurence Sterne), “is but a different name for conversation,” and everything that he has written in his long and rich career has honored this conviction. Personable and direct, Lawrence Levine's prose—his essays above all—invite the reader to join the discussion that is American history and to appreciate its many rhythms and accents.1
Art · Conversation · Conviction · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |