Postwar Academic Fiction

KENNETH WOMACK is Assistant Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University's Altoona College. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American literature as well as on bibliographical and textual criticism. In addition to serving as co-editor of Oxford University Press's The Year's Work in English Studies, he is editor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory.

'...this book (and the satires it discusses) might be instructive to university faculty, who often take themselves too seriously.' - J.C. Kohl, Choice

• Introduction: Ethical Criticism and Postwar Literary Theory Reading the 'Heavy Industry of the Mind': Ethical Criticism and the Anglo-America Academic Novel Negotiating the University Community: Lucky Jim and the Politics of Academe Scholar Adventurers in Exile: Nabokov's Dr. Kinbote and Professor Pnin Searching for Goodness and the Ethical Self: Joyce Carol Oates's The Hungry Ghosts The Professoriate in Love: David Lodge's Academic Trilogy and the Ethics of Romance Performing the Academy: Alterity and David Mamet's Oleanna Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project: Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring Academic Nonfiction and the Culture Warriors: 'Teaching the Conflicts' in Gilbert and Gubar's Masterpiece Theatre Jane Smiley's Academic Carnival: Rooting for Ethics at Moo U. Conclusion: Ethical Criticism and the Academic Novel beyond the Culture Wars Notes and Bibliography