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Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (Hardcover)

by Elaine Showalter (Author) "WHY IS THE ACADEMIC NOVEL my favorite literary genre? ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 166 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (15 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 019928332X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199283323
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 393,629 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Independent, 23 September 2005

Her survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites.


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a welcome addition to the literature on academia and academics. (John Dreijmanis, Higher Education Review )

This study is enjoyable... and always stimulating. (Caroline Moore, The Spectator )

Clarity and style... Overall, this book is to be welcomed as a valuable addition to the critical commentaries on developing genres in the novel. As we have come to expect from Elaine Showalter, the insights are amny and incisive, and the style is always rich and entertaining, with a workable balance of scholarship and subjective reflection. It will surely be auseful book for students of the modern novel, and also something that will be complementary to maintain genre studies in literature.

Her survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites. (Boyd Tonkin, The Independent )

Showalter's knowledge of the Professorroman is as impressive as her interest is genuine...Showalter benefits from a confident style and is very precise (Modern Language Review )

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3.0 out of 5 stars A great read - but too short!, 24 Jan 2006
This book takes a decade-by-decade view, with lots of good stuff on Snow, Amis, Lurie, Bradbury, Lodge, the campus-detectives of Amanda Cross and Joan Smith, and even novels like 'White Noise' that are not 'mainstream' campus genre. My only criticism is that it's too short! It leaves out for instance, such important US campus novels as John Barth's 'Giles Goat-Boy' and Jane Smiley's 'Moo', while JK Galbraith's satire about economists at Harvard, 'A Tenured Professor', gets a mere passing mention. As for the Brits, Barry Unsworth's 'The Big Day' is left out, likewise Bradbury's 'Eating People is Wrong' (though maybe that's a good thing), and presumably Tom Sharpe's 'Porterhouse Blue' and Howard Jacobson's 'Coming From Behind' are way beneath the radar? So although I really like Elaine Showalter as a critic, this one felt a bit rushed, and I'm still waiting for a full-on survey of this genre.
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