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Title

Literature, politics, and intellectual crisis in Britain today / Clive Bloom.

Author

Bloom, Clive.

Publication

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

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Description

viii, 230 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "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.".
• "Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today analyses those social and political influences of the twentieth century which have shaped the intellectual and artistic rhetorics of contemporary Britain. It places particular emphasis on the cultural, moral and historical critiques of socialist and conservative cultural thinkers as they have fought over the guardianship of the avant garde and its relationship with literary heritage, academic debate and communal identity.
• Through a re-evaluation of sixties radicalism and the anarchist-libertarian tradition, this volume highlights a forgotten history of resistance, offers a sharp critique of consensus radicalism and provides a repoliticisation of cultural studies. Clive 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-223) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Something in the Air: Culture and Politics Now. 1. Introduction: Resistible Culture. 2. Just the Way it is -- Pt. II. And our Friends are all Aboard: Literary Culture. 3. 1910 was a Good Year: Connoisseurs and Book Lists. 4. Eyes on the Prize: Booker and the Orange People; Joan Collins in Court -- Pt. III. Under Dreaming Spires: The Academic World. 5. The Nature of the University at the Present Time -- Pt. IV. Canned Heat: Resistance. 6. The Sixties in your Head: An Aborted Experiment? 7. The Role of the Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. 8. The Abyss of History and the Nature of the Fantastic. 9. Children of Albion: Dr. Leavis amongst the Dongas Tribe.

ISBN

• 0333778324 (cloth)
• 0333778332 (pbk.)

LCCN

00064033

OCLC

• ocm44876964
• SCSB-4093408

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Columbia University Libraries