Campus Fictions

Wesley Beal serves as W.C. Brown, Jr. Professor of English at Lyon College in the United States. He published his first monograph, Networks of Modernism, in 2015.

• Chapter 1: Introductions to the American Campus Novel.- Chapter 2: Campus Characters: Exemption and Utopia on Campus.- Chapter 3: Anti-intellectualism, “Theory,” and the Reactionary Impulses of the Campus Novel.- Chapter 4: Unauthorized Sex?: Sex, Power, and Privilege in the Campus Novel.- Chapter 5: Subordinations of Academic Freedom: “Speech” as Campus Keyword and Codeword.- Chapter 6: Identity and Culture War on Campus.- Chapter 7: Hardly Workin; or, the Valences of Productivism in Campus Novels.- Chapter 8: On Teaching the University.- Chapter 9: Appendix I: Further Data.- Chapter 10: Appendix II: the Directory of the American Campus Novel.