Academic Novel
New and Classic Essays
Published on 29. October 2007
345 pages
978-1-908258-59-5 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of the most illuminating commentary written on the English language academic novel during the last forty years, together with new essays especially commissioned for this volume. As well as general thematic essays, there are discussions of a number of individual novelists: Vladimir Nabokov, Randall Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, Kingsley Amis, Alison Lurie, Robertson Davies, David Lodge, Howard Jacobson. Contributors are: Adam Begley, Ian Carter, Benjamin DeMott, Aida Edemariam, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Hobsbaum, J. P. Kenyon, David Lodge, Merritt Moseley, Dale Salwak, Samuel Schuman, J. A. Sutherland, Glyn Turton, Chris Walsh, Susan Watkins, George Watson.
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Content
- Front cover
- Title pages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Fiction of Academia
- Introductory: Definitions and Justifications
- University Life in English Fiction - Philip Hobsbaum
- Fictions of Academe: Dons and Realities - George Watson
- The War Against the Academy - Leslie Fiedler
- How to Write a College Novel - Benjamin De Mott
- Campus Writers - J. A. Sutherland
- Lucky Jim and After: The Business of University Novels - J. P. Kenyon
- Types of Academic Fiction - Merritt Moseley
- Barbarous Women - Ian Carter
- The Decline of the Campus Novel - Adam Begley
- Who's Afraid of the Campus Novel? - Aida Edemariam
- 2. Examples
- I may turn up yet, on another campus": Vladimir Nabokov and the Academy - Samuel Schuman
- Randall Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, and Fifties Liberalism - Merritt Moseley
- Academic Life in Lucky Jim and Jake's Thing - Dale Salwak
- Women and Wives Mustn't Go Near It": Academia, Language and Gender int he Novels of Alison Lurie - Susan Watkins
- Robertson Davies and the Campus Novel - David Lodge
- Not a Comic Novelist, Exactly": The Academic Fiction of David Lodge - Chris Walsh
- Campus Fugit: Howard Jacobson's Coming From Behind - Glyn Turton
- Name and Title Index
- Back cover
- Blank Page
- Blank Page
- Blank Page
