YOUNG, Alan: Dada and After: Extremist Modernism and English Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. 240x162mm. 247pp. Very Good / Very Good.

Alan Young traces the rise of Dada and Surrealism, the different responses to which give a clearer picture of British literary life between the wars, showing that English Modernism was not was isolated from Continental movements as is often thought. Since WWII the anarcho-nihilistic forces of neo-Dada have made themselves felt, and the book ends with a penetrating and often critical analysis of works by Christopher Middleton, Jeff Nuttall, Adrian Henri, Ian Hamilton Finlay and other writing from an 'underground' or extremist avant-garde position.