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Analyzing 'The History Man' by Malcolm Bradbury

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of the main character, Howard Kirk, and his colleagues and students as the charismatic teacher taught his sociological perspectives on life and developed a certain scoundrel reputation as a manipulative  and exploitive instructor in the satire fun-filled novel. Malcolm Bradbury spent over 50 years in universities while he was writing in Britain and  abroad which no doubt gave him a unique perspective of university life. His work "The History Man" which was considered a satire on university radicalism in the 1970s is now  one of the novels said to be responsible for the making of the genre of "the campus novel" (Guttridge 6). While Bradbury was said to have been old-fashioned in his  teaching of creative writing, he began to teach the works of contemporary American authors and became aware of the "provincialism of much of British fiction". When writing "The History Man"  Bradbury tried to move away from the provincial realism and toward a more contemporary world of writing and begin to enjoy the formlessness of the contemporary novel (McMahon T07). Bradbury  became aware of the differences in American and British literature as he described that American literature had more of a Gothic tradition and used more of the vernacular language whereas  British traditional literature tended more toward social realism and classical literary language (Bradbury et al). This awareness led to Bradburys exploration of a broader contemporary style. The central character, Howard  Kirk, tends to reject humanism as he regards it as old-fashioned and thinks he can change and manipulate history and the lives of the characters around him. This new work  eventually won "The History Man" the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and became a popular television adaptation (Guttridge 6; Turner 33). "The History Man" tells the story of Howard