Faculty towers
Subtitle: the academic novel and its discontents
By: Elaine Showalter.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: College stories, English -- History and criticism.; College stories, American -- History and criticism.; Teacher-student relationships in literature.; Universities and colleges in literature.; Education, Higher, in literature.; College teachers in literature.; College students in literature.; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life.
Other 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-135) and index.