This post features a diagram I made using 'Inspiration 9' to describe the ways in which Jeffrey Williams divides and subdivides the Campus Novel and the Academic Novel.
I read ' The Rise of the Academic Novel' in American Literary History, Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2012, pp. 561-589.
I like William's thorough approach and it is going to be really helpful for my next chapter of my thesis, but I am a visual person and wanted to understand the many sub-categories and distinctions as best I can. I hope this is helpful for anyone else trying to get a grasp on the history of the campus novel, or rather the academic novel as this diagram heavily features.
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Text List, for future editing:
Novels
about Universities
I. Campus
Novels about Student Life
Like
a bildungsroman
A. Adventures
In the early part of the
century, there was a
vogue of campus novels,
usually portraying students’ adventures,
lessons (in and out of
class), and sports
1. Owen Wister
a. Philosophy
4 (1903)
b. The
Virginian (1902)
2. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
a. This Side
of Paradise (1920)
3. Percy Mark
a. The Plastic
Age (1924)
4. Thomas
Wolfe
a. Look
Homeward, Angel (1929
B. Mysteries
1. Max
Beerbohm
a. Zuleika
Dobson (1911)
2. Donna Tartt
a. The Secret
History (1992)
II. Academic
novels about Academics Lives
A. (British
and) Insular
1. Dorothy
Sayers
a. Gaudy Night
(1935)
2. C P Snow
a. The Masters
(1951)
3. Trollope
a. Barchester
Towers (1857)
4. Tom Sharpe
a. Porterhouse
Blue (1974)
B. (1985)
DeLillo's WHITE NOISE
1. Sex
a. John Updike
(1) Couples
(1968)
(2) Too Far To
Go (1979)
b. Lurie
(1) The War
between the Tates (1974)
2. Melodramas
about Culture Wars
a. Mamet
(1) Oleanna
(1992)
b. Roth
(1) The Human
Stain (2000)
c. L'heureux
(1) Handmaid of
Desire (1996)
d. Prose
(1) Blue Angel
(2000)
e. Bernays
(1) Professor
Romeo (1989)
3. Work-Life /
Mid Life Crises
a. Women
(1) Lorrie
Moore
(a) Anagrams
(1986)
(2) Chang
(a) All is
Forgotten (2010)
(3) Susanna
Moore
(a) In the Cut
(1995)
b. Men
(1) Aster
(a) Book of
Illusions (2003)
(2) Beattie
(a) Another You
(1995)
(3) Russo
(a) The
Straight Man (1997)
(4) Johnson
(a) Name of the
Word (2000)
(5) O'Brien
(a) Tomcat in
Love (1998)
(6) Chabon
(a) Wonder Boys
(1995)
(7) Stone
(a) Bay of
Souls (2003)
4. Technology/
Sci Fi
a. Richards
(1) Galatea 2.2
(1995)
b. Lethem
(1) As she
climbed across the table( 1997)
c. Everett
(1) Glyph
(1999)
d. Gibson
(1) Neuromancer
(1984)
e. Stephenson
(1) The Big U
(1984)
(2) Anathem
(2008)
5. Wider
Portraits of Society / Panoramic Books
a. Smiley
(1) Moo (1995)
b. Smith
(1) On Beauty
(2005)
c. Franzen
(1) The
Corrections (2001)
6. Deprofessionalization
a. James Hynes
(1) Publish and
Perish (1997)
(2) The
Lecturer's Tale (2001)
(3) Kings of
Infinite Space (2004)
(4) Next (2010)
b. Lipsyte
(1) The Ask
(2010)
c. McNally
(1) After the
Workshop (2010)
d. Moore
(1) In the Cut
(1995)
