Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents

by Elaine Showalter

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"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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812238508

ISBN13:9780812238501

Release Date:February 2005

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:141 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Books & Reading Classics Criticism & Theory General History & Criticism Humanities Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Movements & Periods

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