Campus novel
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A campus novel is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. The genre, dating back to the late 1940s, is popular because it allows the author to show the quirks of human nature, and reactions to pressure (for exams, etc.) within a controlled environment or to describe the reaction of a fixed socio-cultural perspective (the academic staff) to new social attitudes (the new student intake). "The Groves of Academe" by Mary McCarthy, is one of the first examples of this genre, and was written in 1952.
Examples
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov''
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
- The Morse Series by Colin Dexter
- The Big U by Neal Stephenson
- A Dancing Bear by Mark Osher
- The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
- Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury
- Pictures From an Institution by Randall Jarrell
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