The satirical art in Kingsley Amis’s

Abstract EN

Kingsley Amis‟s Lucky Jim is a satirical novel attacking individuals from across Britain‟s cultural, social and political spectrums.

It is both uproariously funny and deadly serious, both academic satire and comic romance; it directs its spleen both at what remained of England‟s traditional class structure and the new Welfare State and the educational reforms that followed in the wake of the Second World War.

This study exposes the satirical art in Lucky Jim in which scholars, such as Professor Welch, are mocked and learning is called into question.

The university setting functions as the epitome of a stuffy bourgeois world and as a focus for Amis‟s wider satire of contemporary life and society.