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... Lucky Jim and the many comic novels stemming from it provide a good example ; and there is the instructive case of Malcolm Bradbury's Eating People is Wrong , which is an English university novel cast very much in the mould of Lucky Jim ...
... Lucky Jim and the many comic novels stemming from it provide a good example ; and there is the instructive case of Malcolm Bradbury's Eating People is Wrong , which is an English university novel cast very much in the mould of Lucky Jim ...
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... Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce , and at best no more than a faded relic of the taste of the early fifties . Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains , for me , a comic masterpiece , the funniest English first novel since Anthony ...
... Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce , and at best no more than a faded relic of the taste of the early fifties . Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains , for me , a comic masterpiece , the funniest English first novel since Anthony ...
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... Lucky Jim the past is regarded as a matter for suspicion : Jim Dixon has no commit- ment to the history he is supposed to teach , and he loathes Professor Welch's bogus attempts to revive the past by means of handicrafts and madrigal ...
... Lucky Jim the past is regarded as a matter for suspicion : Jim Dixon has no commit- ment to the history he is supposed to teach , and he loathes Professor Welch's bogus attempts to revive the past by means of handicrafts and madrigal ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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