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

Andrew Motion

The first in a series of annual anthologies. It combines writing by younger writers with new work by established authors. Included are specially commissioned short stories, poems, drawings and extracts from works-in-progress.

New Writing

Three satires of academia by the beloved British critic, teacher, and novelist—including his "outstanding" comic masterpiece, The History Man ( The Guardian). "A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment," Malcolm Bradbury remains one of the sharpest comic novelists of the twentieth century ( The Observer). In Rates of Exchange and Stepping Westward, as "in almost all of Bradbury's novels, the most frequently recurring theme is that of the slightly naïve, liberal innocent, usually an academic, hilariously abroad in an unfamiliar, and occasionally slightly threatening, context" ( The Guardian). In The History Man, the tables are turned, and the professor himself is the threat, resulting in "grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking" (A. S. Byatt). Rates of Exchange: University lecturer and seasoned international traveler Angus Petworth is unprepared for the oddities of culture and circumstance that await him on the other side of the iron curtain—in the eastern European nation of Slaka. In two eventful weeks, the professor gives an incendiary interview, is seduced by a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a plot of international intrigue. Satirizing everything from critics and diplomats to Marxism and academia, Rates of Exchange is a witty and lighthearted novel of cultural interchange at the height of the Cold War, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. "Explosively funny." — The Daily Telegraph The History Man: Bradbury's classic skewering of 1970s academia and ideological hypocrisy centers around Professor Howard Kirk, who prides himself on being the most highly evolved teacher on campus. But beneath Kirk's scholarly bohemianism and studied cool is a ruthless, self-serving Machiavellian streak. Kirk is vain and bigoted, dismissing female students and colleagues while releasing vitriol against those who contradict him, particularly his clever, wayward wife, Barbara, the long-suffering mother of his two children. Someone needs to teach him a lesson . . . "[A] genuinely comic novel." — The New York Times Stepping Westward: At the height of the swinging sixties, mediocre British writer James Walker accepts an academic post in America for a year he'll never forget. As Benedict Arnold University's writer in residence, he finds himself something of a celebrity—his work, though met with shrugs at home, is the subject of vibrant scholarly criticism among American academics. But the buttoned-up professor is about to take a crash course in culture shock taught by spirited advocates of free love and aggressively ambitious colleagues. "Highly entertaining." —Margaret Drabble, The Sunday Times

Rates of Exchange, The History Man, and Stepping Westward

The Collected Works Volume One

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.

Cuts

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

Malcolm Bradbury

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