Synopses & Reviews
In 1997, 30 years after the demise of "Swinging London," Britain again seemed to be the center 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, Clive Bloom offers a radical and controversial guide to the possibilities for intellectual life, popular culture, literary production, and political authority in multicultural Britain in 2000 and beyond.
About the Author
Clive Bloom is Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, London.
Table of Contents
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 * Eyes on the Prize: Booker and the Orange People *
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 the Albion: Dr. Leavis amongst the Donga Tribe.
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 * Eyes on the Prize: Booker and the Orange People *
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 the Albion: Dr. Leavis amongst the Donga Tribe.