Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• 1 - Introduction: Ethical Criticism and Postwar Literary Theory 1
• 2 - Reading the “heavy Industry of the Mind”: Ethical Criticism and the Anglo-American Academic Novel 19
• 3 - Negotiating the University Community: Lucky Jim and the Politics of Academe 27
• 4 - Scholar Adventurers in Exile: Nabokov's Dr. Kinbote and Professor Pnin 43
• 5 - Searching for Goodness and the Ethical Self: Joyce Carol Oates's the Hungry Ghosts 60
• 6 - The Professoriate in Love: David Lodge's Academic Trilogy and the Ethics of Romance 77
• 7 - Performing the Academy: Alterity and David Mamet's Oleanna 98
• 8 - Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project: Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring 109
• 9 - Academic Nonfiction and the Culture Warriors: “teaching the Conflicts” in Gilbert and Gubar's Masterpiece Theatre 127
• 10 - Jane Smiley's Academic Carnival: Rooting for Ethics at Moo U. 143
• 11 - Conclusion: Ethical Criticism and the Academic Novel Beyond the Culture Wars 156
• Notes 164
• Bibliography 188
• Index 202