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Changing Places (1975) is the first "campus novel" by British novelist David Lodge. The subtitle is "A Tale of Two Campuses", and thus a literary allusion to Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities.
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Lodge's first published novel The Picturegoers (1960) draws on early experiences in "Brickley" (based on Brockley) and his childhood home, which he revisits again in later novels, Therapy (1995), Deaf Sentence (2008) and Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir (2015). [2]
Changing Places is the first novel in The Campus trilogy. The novel is set in 1969, where Rummidge University, British English Professor Philip Swallow, and Morris, an American English Professor at Euphoria University, exchange jobs.
Changing Places is the first of David Lodge's "Campus" series, this one being set in 1969 and published in 1975. The sexual revolution, Vietnam, student sit-ins and smoking "pot" are all highly topical themes; the novel is pure "psychedelic '60's."
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Oct 11, 2021 · Lodge’s first Campus novel was Changing Places (1975) which “cemented Lodge’s reputation as a popular novelist in England” (Metzger 229) and “solidified Lodge’s reputation as a leading writer of ‘campus novels’.” (Marowski 266) Inspired by his experience of teaching in California, the novel centres on two academicians: an ...
Changing Places (1975), was Lodge's first book in a trilogy of campus novels. Inspired by his experience of teaching in California, the novel centres on two academics: Englishman Phillip Swallow from the University of Rummidge in the West Midlands, and Morris Zapp, an American from the State University of Euphoria (California), and their ...
Changing Places (1975) is a "campus novel" by British novelist and literary critic David Lodge. It is the first of three novels by Lodge that comprises a trilogy concerned with British and...
