Bertram Cope's Year (Annotated)

Henry Blake Fuller's Bertram Cope's Year is a finely controlled campus novel and social comedy centered on a young English instructor whose arrival at a Midwestern university unsettles a circle of faculty wives, students, and patrons. Written in a cool realist manner, the book favors implication over declaration, registering desire, vanity, dependency, and social performance through irony and meti...