Hell Is the British Museum: On S. J. Fowler’s “Mueum”

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January 27, 2023 • By Guy Stevenson

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Guy Stevenson is a lecturer in English literature at Goldsmiths and Queen Mary, University of London. He specializes in literary modernism and is the author of Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture (2020). His essays and reviews have appeared in The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, and the National Post. He is currently working on a second book, about the 1960s and its bearing on contemporary divisions over the language of race, gender, and sexuality.

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Hell Is the British Museum: On S. J. Fowler’s “Mueum”