Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today

CLIVE BLOOM is Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University. He is the author of Cult Fiction and editor of Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to Stephen King.

• Acknowledgements Permissions PART I: SOMETHING IN THE AIR: CULTURE AND POLITICS NOW Introduction: Resistible Culture Just The Way It Is PART II: AND OUR FRIENDS ARE ALL ABOARD: LITERARY CULTURE 1910 was a Good Year: Connoisseurs and Book Lists Eyes on the Prize: Booker and the Orange People; Joan Collins in a Courtroom PART III: UNDER DREAMING SPIRES: THE ACADEMIC WORLD The Nature of the University at the Present Time PART IV: CANNED HEAT: RESISTANCE The Sixties in your Head: An Aborted Experiment? The Role of the Intellectual at the Turn of the Century The Abyss of History and the Nature of the Fantastic Children of Albion: Dr Leavis Amongst the Dongas Tribe Index

An important study and reevaluation of British culture; strongly recommended... Choice