MALCOLM BRADBURY

This literary history considers the complexity of American literature in social, historical and ideological context, at the same time recognizing that American literature has been a Western literature, related to the thought and art movements that have crossed Europe and America.

Francis Jay, a nineties person, embarks on a quest to find one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of the modern age, the elusive Dr Bazlo Criminale. From European congress to congress, from woman to woman, from muse to muse he pursues the doctor, while the truth is slowly revealed.

This volume covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature with accompanying language notes exploring the inter-relationships between language and literature. The analysis begins in 600AD.