Campus novel

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A campus novel is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. The genre dates back to the late 1940s and may describe the reaction of a fixed socio-cultural perspective (the academic staff) to new social attitudes (the new student intake). "The Groves of Academe" by Mary McCarthy, is one of the first examples of this genre, and was written in 1952.

Contents 1 Examples 2 Criticism 3 See also 4 External link

[edit] Examples

• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
• The Morse Series by Colin Dexter
• The Big U by Neal Stephenson
• A Dancing Bear by Mark Osher
• Moo by Jane Smiley
• The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
• Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury
• Pictures From an Institution by Randall Jarrell
• Straight Man by Richard Russo
• I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
• Changing Places by David Lodge
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[edit] Criticism

• Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents by Elaine Showalter
• Ancient Cultures of Conceit by Ian Carter

[edit] See also

• Sexual harassment in education
• Oxford University
• Cambridge University
• School and university in literature

[edit] External link

• A short history of the campus novel