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Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today

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  • © 2001

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  1. Clive Bloom

    1. Middlesex University, London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Something in the Air: Culture and Politics Now

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Resistible Culture

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 3-41

    3. Just the Way it is

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 42-70

  3. And our Friends are all Aboard: Literary Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. 1910 was a Good Year: Connoisseurs and Book Lists

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 73-89

    3. Eyes on the Prize: Booker and the Orange People; Joan Collins in Court

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 90-120

  4. Under Dreaming Spires: The Academic World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Nature of the University at the Present Time

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 123-143

  5. Canned Heat: Resistance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Sixties in your Head: An Aborted Experiment?

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 147-164

    3. The Role of the Intellectual at the Turn of the Century

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 165-180

    4. The Abyss of History and the Nature of the Fantastic

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 181-191

    5. Children of Albion: Dr Leavis amongst the Dongas Tribe

      • Clive Bloom
      Pages 192-209

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 210-230
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About this book

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.

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

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  • Middlesex University, London, UK

    Clive Bloom

About the author

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.

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