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Across the Pond, by Terry Eagleton - a review

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

The esteemed literary critic, serial academic and one-time Marxist firebrand Terry Eagleton is, at 70, still producing books at an admirable rate.

Across the Pond (Norton, £9.99) is subtitled ‘An Englishman’s View of America’, and begins with a rigorous justification for the use of national stereotypes in writing about a country’s population.

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