September 22, 2000
The Fictional Campus: Sex, Power, and Despair
The college campus as a fictional setting has long attracted novelists. How could it not? Novelists adore small, enclosed worlds -- ships at sea, country houses, prep schools -- and few such enclosures offer as much variety and madness as the college campus. There are always power-hungry deans, jet-setting scholars, sex-obsessed young profs, impossible students, and, not least, easily lampooned presidents.
I've got a shelf of these novels and sometimes reread my favorites: Lucky Jim,
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