Showalter Interview

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May 5, 2005
‘Faculty Towers’
Elaine Showalter opens her new book on the academic novel by noting the theory that the novel generally took off because people wanted to read about people like themselves. So it’s not surprising that Showalter, an emeritus professor of English at Princeton University, would consider the academic novel her favorite literary genre.