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BLOOD ON THE NASH AMBASSADOR
Investigations in American Culture

Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram (1924-1995) was a hugely influential British teacher, critic, editor and poet. He taught English and American literature at King's College London for many years, as well as in visiting lectureships all over the world. He co-founded the Institute of United States Studies in London and was a pioneer of the discipline that became cultural studies. He edited Poetry Review during the 1970s, being associated with the British Poetry Revival (his term) and did a great deal to introduce the Beat Generation writers to British readerships. He was a friend of poets and writers such as Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.

Blood on the Nash Ambassador, a collection of eight wide-ranging essays on aspects of American culture, was first published in 1988 but has been out of print for many years. It explores guns, cars, racism, politics and paranoia in startling ways, unparallelled before or since. It is even more relevant today.

Grand Iota/Reality Street is proud to re-publish this book in the centenary year of Eric Mottram's birth. Our edition is completely reset and corrected and has a new introduction by Michael Hrebeniak assessing Mottram's achievement in the context of today's USA.

978-1-874400-92-9
350pp approx, SEPTEMBER 2024