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"Bloom is a card-carrying public intellectual, a regular media commentator and the prolific author and editor of books on pulp fiction, Poe and Freud, graphic novels, politics and literature, best-sellers, American Gothic, British horror, violence and the occult. In short, he has street cred" Times Higher Education Magazine
Restless Revolutionaries: A History of Britain’s Fight for a Republic (History Press) coming November 2010
CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, best-selling author and publisher. When Professor Bloom isn't writing and researching he divides his time between New York University and The University of Notre Dame.
He is also a consultant editor with Libris Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
Books include Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900, Terror Within: The Dream of a British Republic, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; and Gothic Horror (Second Edition), all of which have enjoyed international recognition. He is also an occasional feature writer for the London Evening Standard, regularly appears on television and radio and is quoted in the Columbia Book of World Quotations.
His latest book, Gothic Histories (Continuum) is out now.
He is currently working on a book on Edwardian terrorism and was a consultant for the recent Jack the Ripper exhibition at the Museum in Docklands. His political writing was included at an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery and he was a media commentator on the G20 protests. Recently, Clive has been working closely with the radical bookshop Housmans and with Resonance FM.
Clive is currently involved with the Centenary Exhibition of the Siege of Sidney Street to be held at the Museum in Docklands from December 2010.
Contact Clive at cbloom4189@aol.com or get email updates about Clive's upcoming books and events by sending your email address today
Emeritus Professor Clive Bloom, Author of Terror Within, Violent London, Bestsellers, Gothic Horror etc