Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence: A Case of Wrongful Conviction

Written in an outspoken, polemical style, this volume combines a devastating critique of the theoretical flimsiness of most Larkin scholarship with a revolutionary interpretation of the poems that grants them a central role in the emergence of a British Postmodernism and accounts for their continuing utility to the brilliant young.

About the Author:
John Osborne is Director of American Studies at the University of Hull, UK