Campus novel

A university campus novel or novel (English campus novel ) is a novel whose action is mainly located in and around the grounds of a university. The genre has existed since the 1930s.

Famous University of novels by Dorothy Sayers are Gaudy Night (1935 ), The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy ( 1952), Anglo- Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson ( 1956) or Small World by David Lodge (1984). Known examples of German -speaking university novels are The Campus and The Circle of Dietrich Schwanitz.

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers can also be the genre of the Campus Detectives assigned. A deep case of Bernhard cone (2013 ) is a science but also a campus crime.