Comments on: What are the Best Novels about the Academic Life? http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/what-are-the-best-novels-about-the-academic-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-the-best-novels-about-the-academic-life From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Hannah http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/what-are-the-best-novels-about-the-academic-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1582 Hannah Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:31:41 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1396#comment-1582 I absolutely agree about Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night. It's an amazing novel, one of my favorites in any genre. Its portrayal of an Oxford women's college in the 1930s goes far beyond chronicling the educational system in that place and time (though it does that well) and raises the big questions about what it means to have integrity and what that looks like in the academy and beyond. I have found, though, that the situation of the characters in Gaudy Night doesn't make much sense to most readers unless they've already read the two preceding novels in Sayers' mystery series: Strong Poison and Have His Carcase. Hannah I absolutely agree about Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night. It’s an amazing novel, one of my favorites in any genre. Its portrayal of an Oxford women’s college in the 1930s goes far beyond chronicling the educational system in that place and time (though it does that well) and raises the big questions about what it means to have integrity and what that looks like in the academy and beyond.

I have found, though, that the situation of the characters in Gaudy Night doesn’t make much sense to most readers unless they’ve already read the two preceding novels in Sayers’ mystery series: Strong Poison and Have His Carcase.

Hannah

]]> By: Michelle Butler http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/what-are-the-best-novels-about-the-academic-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Michelle Butler Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:56:38 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1396#comment-1581 Off the top of my head: Richard Russo. Straight Man. Dorothy Sayers. Gaudy Night. I've heard that there are a couple of mystery series set in universities but don't know them myself. Off the top of my head:
Richard Russo. Straight Man.
Dorothy Sayers. Gaudy Night.

I’ve heard that there are a couple of mystery series set in universities but don’t know them myself.

]]> By: Kenny Benge http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/what-are-the-best-novels-about-the-academic-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 Kenny Benge Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:44:09 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1396#comment-1580 I think I Am Charlotte Simmons has more to say than we think. If you pay attention to the beginning of the novel, you will notice that its main theme is how the sexual revolution has impacted learning at undergraduate institutions. See this excellent review article by Peter Berkowitz at the Policy Review website: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3431656.html I think I Am Charlotte Simmons has more to say than we think. If you pay attention to the beginning of the novel, you will notice that its main theme is how the sexual revolution has impacted learning at undergraduate institutions. See this excellent review article by Peter Berkowitz at the Policy Review website: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3431656.html

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