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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 - the center was filled
with students: white, male, Protestant students at boys' schools.
More recently, a new generation of writers-including Richard A.
Hawley, Anita Shreve, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Tobias Wolff-has
transformed school fiction by highlighting issues relating to
gender, race, scandal, sexuality, education, and social class in
unprecedented ways. These new writers present characters who are
rich and underprivileged, white and Black, male and female,
adolescent and middle-aged, conformist and rebellious. By turning
their attention away from the bruised feelings of teenagers, they
have reinvented American boarding-school fiction, writing vividly
about a host of subjects the genre overlooked in the past.
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