Arrange the following campus novels in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
B) Macolm Bradbury’s The History Man
C) Mary McCarthy’s the Groves of Academe
D) Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited
E) Philip Roth’s The Human StainChoose the correct answer from the options given below.
Correct Answer :
D, C, B, A, E
Solution :
The correct option is D, C, B, A, E.
To arrange these campus/academic novels in the correct chronological order, we look at the publication year for each book:
1. D) Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: Published in 1945. This novel, which is set partly at Oxford University, is one of the earliest works in this list.
2. C) Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe: Published in 1952. This is widely considered one of the earliest and most influential academic/campus novels, satirizing academic life during the McCarthy era.
3. B) Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man: Published in 1975. It is a classic satirical campus novel set at a modern redbrick university in England.
4. A) J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: Published in 1999. It centers on a South African university professor of English communications.
5. E) Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: Published in 2000. It focuses on a classics professor at a New England liberal arts college who is forced to resign.
Thus, the correct chronological order of publication is 1945 (D) → 1952 (C) → 1975 (B) → 1999 (A) → 2000 (E), which corresponds to the sequence D, C, B, A, E.
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