Bleak House

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A BA (Hons) in “Curb your Enthusiasm”? The Campus Novel Today

“…In America, novels set in colleges or universities frequently appear in the last century (Williams 561), arguably developing out of an alleged anti‐intellectualism linked to the popularity of the “natural man” within nineteenth century American realism 1 . This is too broad a statement, however, for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Fanshawe (1828), based on his experiences at Bowdoin, is a romance with elements of gothic abduction, while the rise of magazines in America in the nineteenth century did promote the “educated man” (Peterson 3).…”