Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Dieter Fuchs and Wojciech Klepuszewski -- The Anglo-American Tradition: The Utopian Heritage of Social Welfare and the Rise of the (Neo-)Liberal Market -- Academia Utopiana: Universities and Research Institutions in Early Modern Utopian Fictions / Artur Blaim -- Smaller World: The Academic Novel as Canary in the Coal Mine of Modern Higher Education / Merritt Moseley -- Academia and the “Outside” World in David Lodge’s Nice Work / Ruxandra Diaconu -- Eastern and Central Europe: Auto- and Hetero-Stereotypes -- Academic Fiction and the Professorial Shadowlands: The (Dis)empowerment of the Eastern European Scholar / Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim -- Zamek – Jerzy Kaczorowski’s Conference Topography / Wojciech Klepuszewski -- Academic Poles Apart: Inauguracja and Lucky Jim / Wojciech Klepuszewski -- From German to Austrian Academic Fiction: Regionalism Exponentiated / Rudolf Weiss -- The usa, Canada, and South Africa: Gender and Ethnicity -- Victimization in Academic Mystery Fiction / Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik -- “How Far Can You Go?” The Contemporary South African University Novel in Black on White / Ewald Mengel -- Global Perspectives: The Centre and/or the Periphery? -- The World, the University, and the Self: Personal Topographies in André Aciman’s Harvard Square / Marta Lysik -- C.K. Stead’s ‘Campus’ Novel Talking about O’Dwyer: Oxford, New Zealand, Croatia, Greece / Igor Maver -- “How to Save Difference”: Contemporary Romanian, German, English and American Academic Novels / Corina Selejan -- Menippean Satire and Academic Romance in David Lodge’s Small World / Dieter Fuchs -- Back Matter -- Index.

The Campus Novel – Regional or Global? presents innovative scholarship in the field of academic fiction. Whereas the campus novel is traditionally considered a product of the Anglo-American world, the present study opens a new perspective: it elucidates the intercultural exchange between the well-established Western canon of British and American academic fiction and its more recent regional response outside the Anglo-American territory.