The Rector of Justin (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis Auchincloss
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, New England, Railroads, Church schools
- Locales: New York, NY, New England
The Rector of Justin continues Auchincloss's analytical portrayal of American society and its institutions, here focusing upon the type of boys’ boarding school that he himself attended and that has furnished the United States with much of its business and political leadership since the end of the nineteenth century. Told from a number of viewpoints, the tale of Justin Martyr Academy and its founder, the title character Francis Prescott, remains tantalizingly incomplete even at the end, showing the basic anomaly of an institution that seeks to foster “democratic” ideals...
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