FACULTY TOWERS: THE ACADEMIC NOVEL AND ITS DISCONTENTS.

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"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.

subjects: American College stories,  American fiction,  College students in literature,  College teachers in literature,  Education, Higher, in literature,  English College stories,  English fiction,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Teacher-student relationships in literature,  Universities and colleges in literature,  College stores,  Teacher-student relationships,  English fiction, history and criticism,  American fiction, history and criticism,  Roman anglais,  Histoire et critique,  Universités dans la littérature,  Roman américain

Places: English-speaking countries