Volume : 4, Issue : 12, December - 2015

Cultural Studies in Kingsley Amis� Take A Girl Like You

Ms. Rashmi Rani

Abstract :

<p>&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Kingsley Amis&amp;amp;rsquo;s most ambitious reckoning with his central theme- the degradation of modern life&amp;amp;mdash;introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis&amp;amp;rsquo;s rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the North English country has come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and fortune. The novel centers on the (increasingly desperate and cruel) attempts of Patrick Standish, a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school, to seduce Jenny, against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby, suburban middle class milieu in which the novel is set. In this novel, Kingsley Amis highlights the culture of British Society in 1950s.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;</p>