The Bradbury Circle: The Writer, the Critic, and the University, 1955-2000

我的项目是一部关于马尔科姆·布拉德伯里、洛娜·塞奇、大卫·洛奇和文学杂志《评论季刊》（由C. B.考克斯和A. E.戴森于1958年创立）的创造性、批判性和教育性工作的思想史。它揭示了战后公共知识分子的网络，我称之为“布拉德伯里圈”，并调查了这五个人是如何将创作实践与学术文学批评和大学教学结合起来的。在他们的大学生涯中，这些人物与面向公众的杂志、中学和电视进行了各种各样的接触，试图培养一种多元化和民主的文学文化，从而反对f·r·里维斯的文化悲观主义。通过强调布拉德伯里圈子的重要性，他们在英国省级和公民大学的英语系内外创造性地和批判性地工作，我提出了一个重要的替代方案，以牛津剑桥为中心的学科历史，突显了Leavisism和“理论”之间的两极分化冲突。

My project is an intellectual history of the creative, critical, and educational work of Malcolm Bradbury, Lorna Sage, David Lodge and the literary journal Critical Quarterly, founded by C. B. Cox and A. E. Dyson in 1958. It brings to light a network of postwar public intellectuals I term the 'Bradbury circle', and investigates how these five individuals combined creative practice with academic literary criticism and university teaching. Alongside their university careers, these figures engaged variously with public-facing magazines, secondary schools, and television in an attempt to cultivate a plural and democratic literary culture, thus opposing the cultural pessimism of F. R. Leavis. By emphasising the importance of the Bradbury circle, who worked creatively and critically within and outside the English departments of British provincial and civic universities, I propose a significant alternative to the Oxbridge-focussed histories of the discipline that foreground a polarised conflict between Leavisism and 'Theory'.