Eating People Is Wrong (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Malcolm Bradbury
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Academic comedy of manners
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: An English provincial university
- Principal Characters: Stuart Treece, Louis Bates, Emma Fielding, Mr. Eborebelosa, Carey Willoughby, Viola Masefield
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Teaching or teachers, Culture, Racism, College life, England or English people, Liberalism, Ethics, Colleges or universities, Humanism
- Locales: England
The Novel
Eating People Is Wrong follows an academic year in the life of Stuart Treece, professor of English and head of the department at a provincial English university. Proceeding in a chronologically straightforward manner, the novel deals largely and successively with the individual social and personal situations in which Treece ineffectually tries to make his presence felt and his moral imperatives understood. What emerges is a comic yet sad portrait of Treece’s invariable failures: a postgraduate sherry party, an undergraduate tea, a botched driver’s test, and...
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