Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents

Contributor(s): Showalter, Elaine (Author)

ISBN: 9780812220858

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$30.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$42.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$41.75 (100+ copies: $41.00)

List/retail price:

$30.00

Pub Date: August 31, 2009

Dewey: 823.0093557

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 8.20" L x 5.10" W ( 0.45 lbs) 152 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Criticism | Books and Reading

Series: Personal Takes

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In Faculty Towers, Showalter takes a personal look at the ways novels about the academy have charted changes in the university and society since 1950.

Review Quotes: "A read as thoroughly enjoyable as the novels themselves."-- "Virginia Quarterly Review"

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