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American boarding school fiction, 1928-1981 : a critical study / Alexander H. Pitofsky.
- Title
- American boarding school fiction, 1928-1981 : a critical study / Alexander H. Pitofsky.
- Author
- Pitofsky, Alexander H.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS379 .P56 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 198 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In spite of their unsettling images of anguish and cruelty, American boarding-school novels have attracted large audiences and influenced countless school narratives in fiction, drama, television and film. Many books have been written about British school stories. This is the first study that explores the history of boarding-school fiction in the United States"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1 Masculine Competition and Boarding-School Culture in The Catcher in the Rye 11 -- 2 Unseen Academy: John Knowles's A Separate Peace 33 -- 3 Campus Politics and Endless Adolescence in The Rector of Justin 54 -- 4 Sexuality, Gothic Melodrama, and Boarding-School Fiction: James Kirkwood's Good Times/Bad Times 77 -- 5 "That was what made the school so useless": Anti-Prep Broadsides and A Good School 108 -- 6 Isolation and Conflict in Tea and Sympathy and Peace Breaks Out 134.
- ISBN
- 9780786478651 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786478659 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9781476616629 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014024229
- OCLC
- 879584330
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library