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Faculty Towers The Academic Novel and Its Discontents

Paperback • 2009 • English

Faculty Towers The Academic Novel and Its Discontents

By Elaine Showalter

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About the book

"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 we...Show more

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ISBN

9780812220858

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Faculty Towers The Academic Novel and Its Discontents

Format

Paperback

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