CLIVE BLOOM is Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University. He is the author of Cult Fiction and editor of Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to Stephen King.

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• Acknowledgements Permissions 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 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 Albion: Dr Leavis Amongst the Dongas Tribe Index