CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅷ
Part Ⅰ Something in the Air : Culture and Politics Now
1 Introduction : Resistible Culture = 3
2 Just the Way it is = 42
Part Ⅱ And our Friends are all Aboard : Literary Culture
3 1910 was a Good Year : Connoisseurs and Book Lists = 73
4 Eyes on the Prize : Booker and the Orange People ; Joan Collins in Court = 90
Part Ⅲ Under Dreaming Spires : The Academic World
5 The Nature of the University at the Present Time = 123
Part Ⅳ Canned Heat : Resistance
6 The Sixties in your Head : An Aborted Experiment? = 147
7 The Role of the Intellectual at the Turn of the Century = 165
8 The Abyss of History and the Nature of the Fantastic = 181
9 Children of Albion : Dr Leavis amongst the Dongas Tribe = 192
Notes = 210
Works Cited = 217
Index = 224
Acknowledgements = ⅷ
Part Ⅰ Something in the Air : Culture and Politics Now
1 Introduction : Resistible Culture = 3
2 Just the Way it is = 42
Part Ⅱ And our Friends are all Aboard : Literary Culture
3 1910 was a Good Year : Connoisseurs and Book Lists = 73
4 Eyes on the Prize : Booker and the Orange People ; Joan Collins in Court = 90
Part Ⅲ Under Dreaming Spires : The Academic World
5 The Nature of the University at the Present Time = 123
Part Ⅳ Canned Heat : Resistance
6 The Sixties in your Head : An Aborted Experiment? = 147
7 The Role of the Intellectual at the Turn of the Century = 165
8 The Abyss of History and the Nature of the Fantastic = 181
9 Children of Albion : Dr Leavis amongst the Dongas Tribe = 192
Notes = 210
Works Cited = 217
Index = 224