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Book Title
Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (Personal
Item Height
8.5 inches
Features
Dust Jacket
Genre
LITERARY CRITICISM
Item Weight
0.75 pounds
ISBN-10
0812238508
ISBN
9780812238501

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812238508
ISBN-13
9780812238501
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30883462

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
152 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Faculty Towers : the Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Industries / Retailing, General, Subjects & Themes / General, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Education, Business & Economics
Author
Elaine Showalter
Series
Personal Takes Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2004-054977
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Her survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."--The Independent, "[Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."-- The Independent
Dewey Decimal
823.009/3557
Table Of Content
Introduction: What I Read and What I Read For 1. The Fifties: Ivory Towers 2. The Sixties: Tribal Towers 3. The Seventies: Glass Towers 4. The Eighties: Feminist Towers 5. The Nineties: Tenured Towers 6. Into the Twenty-First Century: Tragic Towers Conclusion Notes Bibliography of Academic Novels Acknowledgments
Synopsis
"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred being cast as the luscious Concord grape to my role as the withered prune." In the days before there were handbooks, self-help guides, or advice columns for graduate students and junior faculty, there were academic novels teaching us how a proper professor should speak, behave, dress, think, write, love, and (more than occasionally) solve murders. If many of these books are wildly funny, others paint pictures of failure and pain, of lives wasted or destroyed. Like the suburbs, Elaine Showalter notes, the campus can be the site of pastoral and refuge. But even ivory towers can be structurally unsound, or at least built with glass ceilings. Though we love to read about them, all is not well in the faculty towers, and the situation has been worsening. 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, the globe-trotting antics of David Lodge's Morris Zapp, the sleuthing Kate Fansler in Amanda Cross's best-selling mystery series, or 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
PR830.U5S36 2005

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