This second edition of The American College Novel cites and describes 648 novels that are set at American colleges and universities, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Fanshawe (Bowdoin College, 1828) to William Hart's Never Fade Away (University of California, 2002). This revised and updated edition contains 225 new entries, most new novels published since 1981. The annotations provide information about the novels' plots, settings, and central characters, as well as brief biographies of the authors. The bibliography is divided into two sections: student-centered and staff-centered novels, both cited in chronological order by publication year. A "starter list" of 50 American college novels is included, to help the novice reader distinguish classics within the genre, as well as indexes by author, title, college and university, and academic discipline. Intended for scholars as well as the layperson, this is a useful reference work for studying the portrayal of American higher education over time in popular fiction, as well as helping a casual reader locate a pleasurable read.

More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.

Excerpt from The College Novel in America: With a Preface How this book happens to appear in its present guise, under the imprint of the Southern Illinois University Press and in the Crosscurrents series, with this particular preface writer, is itself a college-novel anecdote. In 1961, when I was an official of the College English Association, the editor of that organization's journal, the cea Critic - Professor Donald Sears, now of Skidmore College - asked me to write an essay on the academic novel. The result appeared in the May issue as Campus in Wonderland, and it brought a storm of mail. Some of this was expected, since a short article couldn't possibly discuss everyone's favorite book on the subject: suggested additions arrived by every post, and some publishers even sent books which hadn't been mentioned. But a good many of the letters simply expressed happiness because someone had written on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.