Clive Bloom
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"It is far too simplistic to argue that each time a woman reads a magazine advocating heterosexual marriage, or a Barbara Cartland novel, a rubber fetishist goes and buys a favorite magazine or a teenager buys a Batman comic that they are equally vulnerable, equally exploited, equally duped. To patronize every reader of Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins is to grossly misjudge and diminish the subject." - (Clive Bloom in Cult Fiction, 1996) |
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Clive Bloom is an English scholar on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism.
His books include Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 and Gothic Horror: A Reader’s Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, all of which have enjoyed international recognition.
Bibliography
- THE 'OCCULT' EXPERIENCE AND THE NEW CRITICISM: Daemonism, Sexuality and the I-Iidden in Literature
- READING POE, READING FREUD: The Romantic Imagination in Crisis
- DARK KNIGHTS: The New Comics in Context (with Greg McCue)
- JACOBEAN POETRY AND PROSE: Rhetoric, Representation and the Popular Imagination (editor)
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SUSPENSE: The Genre Comes of Age (editor)
- SPY THRILLERS: From Buchan to Ie Carre (editor) CREEPERS: British Fantasy and Horror Fiction in the Twentieth Century (editor) * LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN MODERN BRITAIN (1900-1929) (editor)
- PERSPECTIVES ON PORNOGRAPHY: Sexuality in Film and Literature (co-editor with Gary Day)
- NINETEENTH-CENTURY SUSPENSE: From Poe to Conan Doyle (co-editor with Brian Docherty, Jane Gibb and Keith Shand)
- AMERICAN POETRY: The Modernist Ideal (co-editor with Brian Docherty)
- AMERICAN DRAMA (editor)
Bibliography
- Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory by Clive Bloom
