Talk:Campus novel

I know that the  Eating People is Wrong  addition looks like vandalism, but it really is an example of the genre. Lujack 14:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Removing a couple of examples
I've removed two examples (WALDEN & A Dancing Bear) that don't seem sufficiently notable for inclusion in a selective list. Espresso Addict 00:45, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

"Disgrace" in my view does not belong here
I'm suprprised to find Coetzees "Disgrace" here and I doubt that those who put it here actually have read it. According to the article's intro, a campus novel is "a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university." This is not true concerning "Disgrace". It is true that the novel's plot is triggered by what one university professor does with a young student, and eventually he even gets back to where everything started in a somewhat failed attempt to make things good. But the main action takes place in an entirely different setting.

84.154.10.131 (talk) 07:31, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

founding

 * I'm no expert, but what's the basis for claiming this genre dates in great extent from the 1950s? There were a number of popular "college novels" in the U.S. in the 1920s, including This Side of Paradise and The Plastic Age.--Milowent • hasspoken  21:33, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Brideshead etc.
These campus novels would need to be distinguished from novels set in more traditional universities. These go back well before the ones featured here. Brideshead Revisited is the obvious one, also Compton Mackenzie's Sinister Street dating from 1913. And what about novels in academic settings which are not universities or colleges, such as Norman Collins' The Bat that Flits, which is set in a scientific research station? Valetude (talk) 13:23, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Unreferenced and original research
As well as being completely without references, the article belies its opening statement that the genre originated in 1952 by citing several works dating from decades before. Unless there is an improvement before the end of May, I will propose it for deletion. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 18:21, 23 April 2017 (UTC)


 * ...or re-title the article as 'Varsity novels', and devote one section to campus novels. Valetude (talk) 14:42, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

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Deptford Trilogy
I know we can't list everything here, but given the heft and prestige of the work, and its important place in Canadian literature, perhaps we should add Robertson Davies' "Deptford Trilogy" to the list of examples. Laodah 05:22, 18 July 2018 (UTC)