A dissertation booklist of academic novels, plays and theoretical texts
1 Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim (1953).
2 Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson (1911).
3 Bernays, Anne. Professor Romeo (1989).
4 Bradbury, Malcolm. The History Man (1975).
5 Bradbury, Malcolm. Eating People is Wrong (1959).
6 Byatt, A. S. Possession: A Romance (1990).
7 Cather, Willa. The
Professor's House (1925).
8 Chabon, Michael. Wonder Boys (1995).
9 Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace (1999).
10 Coetzee, J. M. Elizabeth Costello (2003).
11 Cross, Amanda. Death in a Tenured Position (1981).
12 Davies, Robertson. The Rebel Angels (1982).
13 Delillo, Don. White Noise (1985).
14 Djerassi, Carl. The Bourbaki Gambit: A Novel (1994).
15 Ellis, Bret Easton. The Rules of Attraction (1987).
16 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise (1920).
17 Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Tenured Professor (1990).
18 Goldstein, Rebecca. The Mind-Body Problem: A Novel (1983).
19 Grudin, Robert. Book: A Novel (1992).
20 Hassler, Jon. Rookery Blues (1995).
21 Hynes, James. Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror (1997).
22 Hynes, James. The
Lecturer's Tale (2002).
23 Jacobson, Howard. Coming from Behind (1983).
24 Jarrell, Randall. Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (1954).
25 Kenyon, Michael. The Trouble with Series Three (1967).
26 Lewis, C. S. That Hideous Strength (1945).
27 Lodge, David. A David Lodge Trilogy: Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work (1975, 1984, 1988).
28 Lurie, Alison. Foreign Affairs (1984).
29 McCarthy, Mary. The Groves of Academe (1951).
30 Malamud, Bernard. A New Life (1961).
31 Malone, Michael. Foolscap: A Novel (1991).
32 Nabokov,
Vladimir. Pnin (1957).
33 O’Brien, Tim. Tomcat in Love (1998).
34 Russo, Richard. Straight Man (1997).
35 Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire (1977).
36 Sarton, May. Faithful Are the Wounds (1955).
37 Sayers, Dorothy L. Gaudy Night (1936).
38 Schine, Cathleen.
Rameau's Niece (1993).
39 Sebald, W.G. The Rings of Saturn (1995).
40 Sharpe, Tom. Porterhouse Blue (1974).
41 Smith, Zadie. On Beauty (2005).
42 Snow, C. P. The Masters (1951).
43 Tartt, Donna. The Secret History (1992).
44 Trilling, Lionel. Of This Time, Of That Place (1943) (Short Story).
45 Williams, John. Stoner(1965).
46 Unsworth, Barry. The Big Day (1976).
47 Weller, George Anthony. Not to Eat, Not for Love (1933).
48 Wolfe, Tom. I am Charlotte Simmons (2004).
Plays
1 Albee, Edward.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962).
2 Edson, Margaret. Wit (1999).
3 Gilman, Rebecca. Spinning into Butter (1999).
4 Gray, Simon. Butley (1971).
5 Mamet, David. Oleanna (1992).
6 Russell, Willy. Educating Rita (1980).
7 Thurber, James. Male Animal (1940).
8 Wasserstein, Wendy. Third (2004).
Theoretical texts
1 Arendt Hannah. The Life of the Mind (1978).
2 Bahktin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (1975).
3 Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind (1987).
4 Carter, Ian. Ancient Cultures of Conceit :
British
University Fiction in the Post War Years (1990).
5 Freud, Sigmund. Beyond The Pleasure Principle (1920); Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921); The Ego and the Id (1923).
6 Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957).
7 Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1974).
8 Guillory, John. The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (1993).
9 Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956).
10 Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious (1981).
11 Kerr, Clark. The Uses of the University (1963).
12 Leslie, William Bruce. Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the
Age of the University (2005).
13 Newfield, Chrisopher. Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the
American University, 1880-1980 (2003).
14 Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals (1872/1887).
15 Ohman, Richard. English in America: A
Radical View of the Profession (1976).
16 Showalter, Elaine.
Faculty
Towers, The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (2005).
17 White, Hayden. Metahistory: the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. (1973).
18 Womack, Kenneth. Postwar Academic Fiction (2002).
Total = 64 texts