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.

• 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

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