Malcolm Bradbury

New Revised Edition

The Modern American Novel

EATING PEOPLE IS WRONG

An account of the development of the British novel in the 20th century, and a companion volume to the author's The Modern American Novel. The various main lines are laid out, and the book includes a detailed survey of post-war writing and the scene today.

The Modern British Novel

Rates of Exchange

Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, to Huxley, Isherwood and Orwell - have been extensively discussed in print. The years since World War II, though, have not been examined in depth, yet have produced talents such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo.

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At the height of the 1960s, a British writer accepts an academic post in America for a year that he’ll never forget English author James Walker has three books to his name, each greeted with middling success and then promptly forgotten. But his résumé is significant enough to earn him a yearlong appointment at Benedict Arnold University as the American college’s writer in residence. At Benedict Arnold, Walker is something of a celebrity—a firebrand of 1960s British literary culture whose work, though perhaps met with shrugs at home, is the subject of vibrant scholarly criticism among American academics. Walker, of course, is not quite what some were expecting, and culture clashes abound as he encounters the tropes of American academia in the sixties. Fusty, buttoned-up professors, spirited advocates of free love, and aggressively ambitious colleagues collide to ensure that Walker’s year in America will be anything but ordinary.

A Novel

Stepping Westward

Or, How to Have Class in a Classless Society

Phogey!

Malcolm Bradbury examines the reasons behind the decision by many American writers - from the Revolution to the present day - to live in Europe, and the consequences this has had on American art and consciousness and the study thereof.

The Expatriate Tradition in American Literature

When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work. This book is about books, about writing and writers, about being a writer and, about being Malcolm Bradbury.

Collected Writing from a Storyteller's Life

Liar's Landscape

Sigmund Ro

Contemporary American Fiction

"The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture. This new, completely revised and updated edition of Malcolm Bradbury's examination of the modern American novel offers an extensive account of the multiplicity and variety of contemporary American fiction, while providing a clear critical survey of the fictional scene from the 1890s to 1991. In this broad study, Malcolm Bradbury traces the development of naturalism and impressionism, the growth of modernism, the realism of the thirties and forties, to the postmodern experiment of the sixties, and the work of contemporary American writers." -- Goodreads.

This novel has a go at the liberal pose and extracts a mass of fun from the provincial university where the story is set. This was Malcolm Bradburys` first novel, and is one of nine titles by Bradbury reissued in 2000.

Eating People is Wrong

A monumental critical history that sums up the American literary achievement from Henry James to Thomas Pynchon. Beginning with the 1890s and the seminal novels of Henry James and Theodore Dreiser, this highly acclaimed volume charts the flowering of the American narrative tradition. It takes in Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner; the emergence of Jewish and African-American literatures; and the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Kurt Vonnegut. Updated to consider the most important fiction of the 1980s and early ’90s, The Modern American Novel is a comprehensive critical history of American literary achievement.

Alan Sillitoe

Joyce Carol Oates

Leonard Michaels

John Banville

William Trevor

Paul Bowles

Bruce Jay Friedman

Jerome Charyn

William Goldman

John Updike

John McPhee

Austin Clarke

Sol Yurick

Thomas Bridges

Jay Neugeboren

George Garrett

Daniel Spicehandler

Jean Claude Van Itallie

Penelope Gilliatt

Harry D. Miller

Alfred Chester

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Frank Tuohy

Irvin Faust

Morris Lurie

Asa Baber

Paul Breslow

Hugh Allyn Hunt

Edward Franklin

Norma Meacock

Virginia Moriconi

Shirley Schoonover

Walter Clemons

Stories from the Transatlantic Review

My strange quest for Mensonge : structuralism's hidden hero ;

Standing in for Henry: Cast: gender - mixed; number - 6 males, 3 females (total - 9); size - medium; ages - adult. Length: 30 scenes. About the way people fictionalise themselves and society. Set in an English provincial advertising agency in the late 1960s.

Three Plays for Television

The After Dinner Game

A parody of modern literary criticism focuses on the narrator's attempt to understand the life and writings of the elusive Henri Mensonge

My Strange Quest for Mensonge

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