Publication

2005 - University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

35,750 words, Guess

Page Count

143 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing234411

Classifications

  • DDC823.009/3557
  • LCCPR830.U5 S36 2005

Alternate Titles

  • Academic novel and its discontents

Description

"In Faculty Towers, Showalter takes a personal look at the ways novels about the academy have charted changes in the university and society since 1950. With her readings of C.P. Snow's idealized world of Cambridge dons or of the globe-trotting antics of David Lodge's Morris Zapp, of the sleuthing Kate Fansler in Amanda Cross's best-selling mystery series or of the recent spate of bitter novels in which narratives of sexual harassment seem to serve as fables of power, anger, and desire, Showalter holds a mirror up to the world she has inhabited over the course of a distinguished and often controversial career."--Jacket.

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  • Faculty towers: the academic novel and its discontentsUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2005-01-01

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