The beauty of the traditional campus novel is that it's rarely reflective of most students' actual experience at least not in the UK... These five novels offer a glimpse into the gilded world of high-level academia from New England to north London.
Published in 1992, the cultish campus novel which has recently found a new generation of fans thanks to BookTok follows an increasingly sinister group of Greek mythology-obsessed classics students at an elite, New England liberal arts college... In some ways Stoner is the anti-campus novel. A departure from the usual fetishisations of academia, its protagonist William Stoner is as repressed in later life by the Middle America university where he teaches as he was once liberated as a student.
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