| has gloss | eng: A campus novel, also called the academic novel, is a novel thats story is around or about a campus of a university. The genre is said to have started in the 1950s. The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy,written in 1952, is often called the first campus novel, but some have also said that novels such as C.P. Snows The Masters, of the year before, were campus novels. |
| has gloss | eng: A campus novel, also known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. The genre in its current form dates back to the early 1950s. The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy, published in 1952, is often quoted as the earliest example, although in Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, Elaine Showalter discusses C.P. Snows The Masters, of the previous year, and several earlier novels have an academic setting and the same characteristics, such as Willa Cathers The Professors House of 1925 and Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night of 1935 (see below). |