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American Boarding School Fiction, 1981-2021
Inclusion and Scandal
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2022
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American Boarding School Fiction, 1981–2021: Inclusion and Scandal is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. Before the 1980s, writers of American boarding-school fiction tended to concentrate on mournful teenagers. When teachers, parents, and other adults appeared, they were usually placed far from the center of the action. The center was filled with white, male, Protestant students at boarding schools. In this book, Alexander H. Pitofsky discusses a new generation of writers—including Richard A. Hawley, Anita Shreve, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Tobias Wolff— that has transformed school fiction by highlighting issues relating to gender, race, scandal, sexuality, education, and social class in unprecedented ways. By turning their attention away from the bruised feelings of teenagers, Pitofsky argues, these authors have reinvented American boarding-school fiction, writing vividly about a host of subjects the genre overlooked in the past.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0193-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0194-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
194
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
“The Best Is Over” No access Pages 1 - 22
Ethan Canin’s “The Palace Thief” No access Pages 23 - 40
The Limits of Post-Blackness No access Pages 41 - 68
Women Without Men No access Pages 69 - 86
“Schools Like Ours Are Vulnerable to Criticism” No access Pages 87 - 104
Behind the Ivy-Armored Walls No access Pages 105 - 128
“A Long-Held Academic Fantasy” No access Pages 129 - 154
Children of the Top 1 Percent No access Pages 155 - 176
