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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Elaine Showalter: Campus follies |
 | | In the drives, the cars are being packed, and the people are ready, in relief to be off, to Positano or the Public Record Office, Moscow or mother, for the lapse of the festive season." |
 | | In a certain kind of British, or Anglophile, academic novel, such as Snow's The Masters, Byatt's Possession, or Donna Tartt's The Secret History, winter is a time of heightened privacy, inwardness, even eroticism. |
 | | The Masters begins with a sensuous celebration of the pleasures of winter and solitary study (perhaps a novelist named Snow felt a natural affinity for the season): |
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