The academic novel : new and classic essays / edited by Moseley, Merritt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moseley, Merritt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--Criticism, Textual.

English fiction.

American fiction--20th century--Criticism, Textual.

American fiction.

Universities and colleges in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chester, [England] : Chester Academic Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 26, 2013).

ISBN:

1-908258-59-4

OCLC:

905084614