Clive Bush Author

The Author: Clive Bush pioneered the teaching of American literature, American studies, and film at the University of Warwick. He was then Director of American Literature at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London, before moving to King’s College London, where he was Professor of American Literature and head of the English department. He is now Emeritus Professor of American Literature at King’s College. His books include The Dream of Reason: American Consciousness and Cultural Achievement from Independence to the Civil War (1977), Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein (1991), Out of Dissent: A Study of Five Contemporary British Poets (1995) and The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War (forthcoming).