Black Country Dionysus —Archie Hill and A Cage of Shadows

This article considers the case of Archie Hill (1928–1986), the near-forgotten novelist, journalist and BBC television presenter. Using scant archive material, interviews and some speculative theorising, this study hopes to recount something of Hill’s life and assess his place in the canon of Englis...

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Main Author: Nick Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-06-01
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Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4630/
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spelling doaj-7139040341c1467db5386db3c0c175ae2021-08-18T11:15:02ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesOpen Library of Humanities2056-67002020-06-016110.16995/olh.462Black Country Dionysus —Archie Hill and A Cage of ShadowsNick Lee0 This article considers the case of Archie Hill (1928–1986), the near-forgotten novelist, journalist and BBC television presenter. Using scant archive material, interviews and some speculative theorising, this study hopes to recount something of Hill’s life and assess his place in the canon of English literature with particular focus on A Cage of Shadows (1973), the account of his impoverished upbringing in the Black Country.Publisher’s Note: This article was originally published with an incorrect peer review statement, which said that this article was an internally reviewed editorial. This has now been amended to reflect the fact that this is a piece of research that underwent double blind peer review by two external reviewers.https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4630/
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description This article considers the case of Archie Hill (1928–1986), the near-forgotten novelist, journalist and BBC television presenter. Using scant archive material, interviews and some speculative theorising, this study hopes to recount something of Hill’s life and assess his place in the canon of English literature with particular focus on A Cage of Shadows (1973), the account of his impoverished upbringing in the Black Country.Publisher’s Note: This article was originally published with an incorrect peer review statement, which said that this article was an internally reviewed editorial. This has now been amended to reflect the fact that this is a piece of research that underwent double blind peer review by two external reviewers.
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