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Reconstructing the past in the academic novel : the concept of nostalgia in Thatcher Britain
… of the past and the use of nostalgia in academic novels of the period. After situating the economic status of higher education during the early Thatcher era, and examining the academic novel as a genre, attention shifts to a study of Graham Swift's Waterland , A. S. Byatt's Possession , …
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Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1984-Present
<p>The “new academic novel” emerged in the 1980s as what had previously been a cloistered, insular genre began to engage much more directly with the social and political import of universities and the people who work in them. I argue that an important strand of this development centres on a group …