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McDermott  \n◎John McDermott 1989Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989978-0-333-44969-1  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmissionof this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copiedor transmitted save with written permission or in accordancewith the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956(as amended),or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,33-4 Alfred Place,London WC1E 7DP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation tothis publication may be liable to criminal prosecution andcivil claims for damages.  \nFirst published 1989  \nPublished by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataMcDermott,John,1948-  \nKingsley Amis:an English moralist.  \n1.Amis,Kingsley-Criticism andinterpretation  \nI.Title  \n823'.914PR6001.M6Z/ISBN 978-1-349-19689-0ISBN 978-1-349-19687-6(eBook)DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-19687-6  \nTo  \n# the memory of my motherand tomy father\n\n# AcknowledgementsIntroduction\n\nix  \n工  \n1 Real and Made-up People2 Feeling Uncertain523 The Hero as Bastard1044 The Voices of Time1335 Sex,Madness and Death1526 Chips from a Novelist's Workbench1817 A Nobbler of Pegasus1898 Kingsley and the Women2069 The Old Devil227A Kingsley Amis Checklist243Notes and References251Index266  \n Acknowledgements   \nI am grateful to the author and to the following for permission toquote from copyright material by Kingsley Amis:to Victor Gollanczand Doubleday for Lucky Jim;to Victor Gollancz and Curtis Brownfor That Uncertain Feeling and I Like It Here;to Victor Gollancz,Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Curtis Brown for Take A Girl LikeYou;to Victor Gollancz and Jonathan Clowes for One FatEnglishman,The Anti-Death League and My Enemy's Enemy;toJonathan Cape and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for I Want It Nowand The Green Man;to Jonathan Cape and Jonathan Clowes for Girl20 and The Riverside Villas Murder;to Jonathan Cape and HarcourtBrace Jovanovich for Ending Up;to Jonathan Cape and A.D.Petersfor The Alteration;to Jonathan Cape,Jonathan Clowes and A.D.Peters for What Became of Jane Austen?;to Century Hutchinson andViking Press for Jake's Thing;to Century Hutchinson and JonathanClowes for Russian Hide-and-Seek,Collected Short Stories and CollectedPoems 1944-1979;to Century Hutchinson and Simon and Schusterfor Stanley and the Women and The Old Devils.Thanks are due also toClive James for permission to quote from his interview withKingsley Amis.Part of Chapter 8 first appeared,in a slightlydifferent form,in Critical Quarterly(Autumn 1985).Frances  \nA.Arnold of Macmillan and Brie Burkeman of Jonathan Cloweshave smoothed many paths for me,and Kingsley Amis wasgenerous with his time,information and hospitality.  \nMy greatest debt is to my wife,Anne,never too busy with herown more demanding labours to spare time for help,encourage-ment and advice:“pretty dear creature”.  \n# Introduction\n\nThere is a puzzle about Kingsley Amis.For all that he is one ofBritain's best known literary personalities and (which is not thesame thing)one of its best-selling novelists,there is little tendencyto take him seriously.As that late-twentieth-century phenomenon,a 'personality',he is dismissed by people with left-wing attitudes('Lefty'is a word Amis borrowed from Clifford Odets to apply tothem)as a hopeless reactionary,and derided as a caricature ofhierarchic,élitist,fascist,etc.blimpishness,and this with aparticular venom for his having publicly articulated his reasons forabandoning positions they still hold;for them,he is the betrayer ofsocialism.Similarly,those who try to engage with his novelswithout being unduly distracted by extra-literary considerationsare not quite sure what to 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