Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today

ISBN-13: 9780333778333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 230 str.

Clive Bloom

Opis

In 1997, thirty years after the demise of 'Swinging London', Britain again seemed to be the centre of the cultural universe, with a thriving arts scene, a new Labour government and a young and enterprising prime minister. 'Cool Britannia' seemed to sum up the new spirit of the 1990s in the hip language of the 1960s. In this book, Bloom offers a radical and controversial guide to the possibilities for intellectual life, popular culture, literary production and political authority in multi-cultural Britain in 2000 and beyond.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, UK. Widely published and Series Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Crime Files series, he is the author of Violent London and Riot City , amongst many other titles.