A campus novel, also known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. It is a new kind of genre which came into existence in the 1950s. At that time, many such novels were being written, both in America and in England. The Groves of Academe (1952) by Mary Mccarthy is considered to be the earliest example in this genre, although some, on the other hand, affirm C.P.Snow’s The Masters (1951) to be the first.
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, India.
