Bradbury, Sir Malcolm (Stanley)
Bradbury, Sir Malcolm (Stanley) (1932–2000), critic and novelist, born in Sheffield, and
educated at the universities of Leicester, London, and Manchester; he held
several academic posts, and from 1970 to 1995 he was professor of American
studies at the University of East Anglia, where he was instrumental in setting
up an influential creative writing course. His critical works include
Possibilities: Essays on the State of the Novel (1973), The Modern American
Novel (1983, 2nd edn 1992), Ten Great Writers (1989),
The Novel Today (rev. edn; 1990), From Puritanism to
Postmodernism (1991), and studies of E. Waugh (1962) and Bellow (1982); his
approach combined a respect for pluralism with an admiration for the
experiments and fictive devices of the American novel and of British writers
such as Fowles. His first three novels are satirical campus novels: Eating
People is Wrong (1959) is set in a second-rate redbrick provincial university;
Stepping Westward (1965) is set in the mid-west of America; and The History Man
(1975) is set in the new plate-glass university of Watermouth.
Rates of Exchange (1983) is a witty and satiric
commentary on cultural exchange. Other novels include Cuts: A Very Short Novel
(1987), a satire on Thatcherite Britain, and Dr Criminale (1992).
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