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The History Man is a British television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC2 in 1981. It is based on Malcolm Bradbury's 1975 novel of the same title. [1] Cast
The History Man is a campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury published in 1975. His best-known novel, it is a satire of academic life in the "glass and steel" universities, the ones established in the 1960s which followed the "redbricks". In 1981 the book was made into a successful BBC television serial.
Bradbury was a productive academic writer as well as a successful teacher; an expert on the modern novel, he published books on Evelyn Waugh, Saul Bellow and E. M. Forster, as well as editions of such modern classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and a number of surveys and handbooks of modern fiction, both British and American.
Taylor is sometimes thought to be the model for Howard Kirk in Malcolm Bradbury's novel The History Man [2] although Bradbury and Taylor had not met at the time the book was written. Taylor was then a member of the Trotskyist political party International Socialists. [3]
Cuts was written by author Malcolm Bradbury, commissioned by Hutchinson as part of their Hutchinson Novella series, published in 1987. It used a host of plays on the word "cuts" to mock the values of Thatcherite Britain in 1986 and the world of television drama production in which Bradbury had become involved after the adaptation of The History Man (by Christopher Hampton).
Chapter 3, "The Aesthetic of Pluralism", in The Culture of Excess in Malcolm Bradbury's 'The History Man', 'Rates of Exchange' and 'Doctor Criminale ', thesis submitted to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. hdl: 10603/197 Accessed 9 September 2019. Harvey-Wood, Harriet (28 November 2000). "Obituary: Sir Malcolm Bradbury". The Guardian.
Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man: 1975 John Braine: Room at the Top: 1957 Joyce Cary: The Horse's Mouth: 1944 Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye: 1953 Ivy Compton-Burnett: The Mighty and Their Fall: 1961 William Cooper: Scenes from Provincial Life: 1950 Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels: 1982 Len Deighton: Bomber: 1970 Lawrence Durrell: The ...
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