Academic Novel

Academic Novel

Author: Merritt Moseley

Publisher: University of Chester

Published: 2007-10-29

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1908258594

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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.


Ancient Cultures of Conceit

Ancient Cultures of Conceit

Author: Ian Carter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1000650596

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The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices? And what does it take for granted? Originally published in 1990, this is the first study to connect literary, historical, and sociological aspects of modern British universities. It shows that the culture celebrated in British university fiction represents a particular view of humane education which has its origins in the values of Oxbridge. Threats are seen to come from the ‘redbrick’ and ‘new’ universities, from proletarians, scientists (including sociologists), women, and foreigners. This exhilarating book makes a nonsense of sociology’s reputation for turgid and plodding analysis. Sharp-witted, shrewd, and penetrating, it will be of interest to students of sociology, literature, and for the same wide audience that appears to have an insatiable appetite for stories about university life.


A Square of Sky

A Square of Sky

Author: Janina David

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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The author, who is Jewish, was a nine-year-old in war-torn Warsaw and saw friends disappear as they and others were harried by the Gestapo.