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题名/责任者:

American boarding school fiction, 1981-2021 : inclusion and scandal / Alexander H. Pitofsky.

出版发行项:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

ISBN:

9781666901931 :

载体形态项:

210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

Pitofsky, Alexander H., author.

论题主题:

American fiction-20th century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

American fiction-21st century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Boarding schools in literature.

论题主题:

Education in literature.

论题主题:

Literary criticism.

中图法分类号:

I712.074

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Introduction: Reinventing the American Boarding-School Novel -- 'The Best is Over': Tragedy, Nostalgia, and Richard A. Hawley's The Headmaster's Papers -- Ethan Canin's 'The Palace Thief': A Lifetime at School -- The Limits of Post-Blackness: Martha Southgate's The Fall of Rome -- Women Without Men: Carol Goodman's The Lake of Dead Languages -- 'Schools Like Ours Are Vulnerable to Criticism': Tobias Wolff's Old School -- Behind the Ivy-Armored Walls: Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep -- 'A Long-Held Academic Fantasy': The Generation Gap in Anita Shreve's Testimony -- Children of the Top 1 Percent: Amber Dermont's The Starboard Sea -- Conclusion: An Ongoing Reinvention.

摘要附注:

"American Boarding School Fiction, 1981-2021: Inclusion and Scandal is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. It discusses a new generation of writers who have made American school fiction far more inclusive and wide-ranging than it was in the era dominated by best sellers such as J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and John Knowles's A Separate Peace"--

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