For more about the academic novel, and in case you want to understand the MEANING of it all, check out  The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays (Merritt Moseley, ed., 2007), Mark Bosco and Kimberly Conner, Academic Novels as Satire  (2007), Ian Carter's Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years (Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990), Elaine Showalter's Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (2005), and… [read post]