学院众生相academic novel

A campus novel, also known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. The genre in its current form dates back to the early 1950s. The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy, published in 1952, is often quoted as the earliest example, although in Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, Elaine Showalter discusses C. P. Snow's The Masters, of the previous year, and several earlier novels have an academic setting and the same characteristics, such as Willa Cather's The Professor's House of 1925, Régis Messac's Smith Conundrum first published between 1928 and 1931 and Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night of 1935 (see below).

Many well-known campus novels, such as Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and those of David Lodge, are comic or satirical, often counterpointing intellectual pretensions and human weaknesses. Some, however, attempt a serious treatment of university life; examples include C. P. Snow's The Masters, J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, and Norene Moskalski's Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam. The novels are usually told from the viewpoint of a faculty member (e.g., Lucky Jim) or the viewpoint of a student (e.g., Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons). Novels such as Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited that focus on students rather than faculty are often considered to belong to a distinct genre, sometimes termed varsity novels.

A subgenre is the campus murder mystery, where the closed university setting substitutes for the country house of Golden Age detective novels; examples include Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night, Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen mysteries, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun's Kate Fansler mysteries and Colin Dexter's The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn.

Contents

• 1Themes
• 2Significant examples
• 3See also
• 4Notes and references
• 5Bibliography
• 6External links

Campus novels exploit the fictional possibilities created by a closed environment of the university, with idiosyncratic characters inhabiting unambiguous hierarchies. They may describe the reaction of a fixed socio-cultural perspective (the academic staff) to new social attitudes (the new student intake).

• The Masters by C. P. Snow (1951)
• The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy (1952)
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954)
• Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell (1954)
• Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson (1956)
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957)
• Purely Academic by Stringfellow Barr (1958)
• Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury (1959)
• A New Life by Bernard Malamud (1961)
• Stoner by John Williams (1965)
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina (1966)
• Giles Goat-Boy, Or, The Revised New Syllabus by John Barth (1966)
• Getting Straight by Ken Kolb (1967)
• The War Between the Tates by Alison Lurie (1974)
• Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe (1974)
• Changing Places by David Lodge (1975)
• The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (1975)
• The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (The Morse Series) by Colin Dexter (1977)
• "The Professor of Desire" by Philip Roth (1977)
• Border Crossings by Daniel Peters (1978)
• Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux (1981)[1]
• Coming From Behind by Howard Jacobson (1983)
• The Big U by Neal Stephenson (1984)
• Small World by David Lodge (1984)
• A Sense of Direction,[1] by Berwick Balfour (2016)
• White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
• Redback by Howard Jacobson (1986)
• Class Reunion by Rona Jaffee (1986)
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (1987)
• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (1987)
• Nice Work by David Lodge (1988)
• Todas las almas by Javier Marías (1989)
• Recalcitrance, Faulkner, and the professors: a critical fiction by Austin Wright (1990)
• Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (1990)
• The Crown of Columbus by Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (1991)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (1992)
• Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed (1993)
• Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers (1995)
• Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (1995)
• Moo by Jane Smiley (1995)
• Death Is Now My Neighbour (The Morse Series) by Colin Dexter (1996)
• Making History by Stephen Fry (1996)
• The Handmaid of Desire by John L'Heureux (1996)
• As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
• Straight Man by Richard Russo (1997)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (1999)
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth (2000)
• Thinks ... by David Lodge (2001)
• The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes (2001)
• Starter for Ten by David Nicholls (2003)
• The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi (2004)
• I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (2004)
• Final Exam by P.F. Kluge (2005)
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)
• Blue Angel by Francine Prose (2006)
• Beet: A Novel (P.S.) by Roger Rosenblatt (2008)
• Indignation by Philip Roth (2008)
• Invisible by Paul Auster (2009)
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (2011)
• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (2011)
• Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone (2013)
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (2014)
• The University by C.K. Houck (2014)
• Cow Country by Adrian Jones Pearson (2015)
• Always there by John Van der Kiste (2015)
• The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher (2018)