| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Pitofsky, Alexander H. American boarding school fiction, 1981-2021 Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] 9781666901948 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| LCCN | 2022041182 |
| ISBN | 9781666901931 |
| ISBN | 1666901938 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
