... anglophobe’, The State and the Novel 15 who feels the British, lacking ‘literature, culture, language and manners’, flatter themselves as the liberators of the French (it is the French and the Americans ... upper and middle class, the husband, the father, and the male generally’. 29 We r e either of these assumptions beyond question, the satirical thrust of Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man (1975) ... Stokesay, father of the perpetrator of the hoax. As Middleton uncovers the truth of the scandal, so does his professional star rise until, at the end of the novel, he accepts the Chair of the History...