Modern Mind

319–331.
    58. Chinua Achebe,
Things Fall Apart,
New York: Doubleday, 1959, Anchor paperback, 1994. Phelps, Op.
cit.,
page 320.
    59. Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Op.
cit.,
page 66. Phelps, Op.
cit.,
page 321.
    60.
Ibid.,
pages 66ff for an account of the various drafts of the book and Achebe’s initial attempts to have it published. Phelps, Op.
cit.,
page 323.
    61. See: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Didier Eribon,
Conversations with Lévi-Strauss, Op. cit.,
page 145, for Lévi-Strauss’s views on the evolution of anthropology in the twentieth century. See also: Leach, Op.
cit.,
page 9.
    62. Edmund Leach,
Lévi-Strauss,
London: Fontana, 1974, page 13.
    63. Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Paris: Plon, 1955;
Mythologiques I: Le cru et le cuit,
Paris: Plon, 1964. Translated as:
The Raw and the Cooked,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970, volume I of The Science of Mythology; volume II,
From Honey to Ashes,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. Lévi-Strauss told Eribon that he thought psychoanalysis, or at least
Totem and Taboo,
was ‘a failure.’ See: Eribon and Lévi-Strauss,
Op. cit.,
page 106.
    64. Leach,
Op. cit.,
page 60.
    65.
Ibid.,
page 63.
    66.
Ibid.,
pages 82ff.
    67. When Margaret Mead visited Paris, Claude Lévi-Strauss introduced her to Simone de Beauvoir. ‘They didn’t say a word to one another.’ Eribon and Lévi-Strauss, Op.
cit.,
page 12.
    68. Basil Davidson,
Old Africa Rediscovered,
London: Gollancz, 1959.
    69. Oliver Neville, ‘The English Stage Company and the Drama Critics,’ in Ford (editor), Op.
cit.,
page 251.
    70.
Ibid.,
page 252. Osborne’s own account of reading the all is in John Osborne,
A Better Class of Person: Autobiography 1929–1956,
London: Faber & Faber, 1981, page 275.
    71. Neville,
Op. cit.,
pages 252–253.
    72. Peter Mudford, ‘Drama since 1950’, in Dodsworth (editor),
The Penguin History of Literature, Op. cit.,
page 396.
    73. For the autobiographical overlap of the play, see: Osborne, Op.
cit.,
pages 239ff.
    74. Mudford, Op. cit., page 395.
    75.
Ibid.
    76. Michael Hulse, ‘The Movement’, in Ian Hamilton (editor),
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, Op. cit.,
page 368.
    77. Mudford, Op.
cit.,
page 346.
    78. For Larkin’s library career, his reactions to it, and his feelings of timidity, see: Andrew Motion,
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life,
London: Faber & Faber, 1993, page 109ff. For other details about Larkin discussed in this section, see respectively: Alastair Fowler, ‘Poetry since 1950,’ in Dodsworth (editor), Op.
cit.,
page 346; and Motion, Op.
cit.,
pages 242–243 and 269, about publicity in
The Times.
Seamus Heaney’s poem, published as part of
‘A Tribute’ to Philip Larkin,
George Hartley (editor), London: The Marvel] Press, 1988, page 39, ended with the line, ‘A nine-to-five man who had seen poetry.’
    79. For the ‘helpless bystander’ quote see Michael Kirkham, ‘Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson: Realism and Art’ in Boris Ford (ed.),
From Orwell to Naipaul,
vol. 8,
New Pelican Guide to English Literature,
London: Penguin, revised edn 1995, pages 286–289. Blake Morrison, ‘Larkin,’ in Hamilton (editor), Op.
cit.,
page 288.
    80.
Richard Hoggart, A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, volume II, 1940–59, London: Chatto & Windus, 1990, page 175.
    81. Leavis said the book ‘had some value’ but that Hoggart ‘should have written a novel.’ See: Hoggart, Op.
cit.,
page 206.
    82. Richard Hoggart,
The Uses of Literacy,
London: Chatto & Windus, 1957.
    83. Raymond Williams,
Culture and Society,
London: Chatto & Windus, 1958.
    84. For a good discussion see: Fred Inglis,
Cultural Studies,
Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, pages 52–56; and Fred Inglis,
Raymond Williams,
London and New York: Routledge, 1995, pages 162ff.
    85. Stefan Collini, ‘Introduction’ to: C. P. Snow,
The Two Cultures,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959, paperback 1969 and 1993, page vii.
    86.
Ibid.
    87.
Ibid.,
page viii. The fee for Snow’s lecture was 9 guineas (ie,
9.4p),
the same rate as when the lecture was established in 1525. See: Philip Snow,
Stranger and Brother: A Portrait of C. P. Snow,
London: Macmillan, 1982, page 117.
    88.
Ibid.,
page 35. See also Collini, Op.
cit.,
page xx.
    89. C. P. Snow, Op.
cit.,
page 14.
    90.
Ibid.,
page 18.
    91.
Ibid.,
pages 29ff
    92.
Ibid.,
page 34.
    93.
Ibid.,
pages 41ff.
    94. MacKillop, Op.
cit.,
page 320.
    95. He was also ill. See: Philip Snow,
Op. cit.,
page 130.
    96. Collini, Op.
cit.,
pages xxxiiiff. This essay, 64