A campus novel, also known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. Academic novels typically center on professors or students. Part of mains
First edition cover of The Professor's House by Willa Cather (1925), considered a predecessor of the 20th-century academic novel
Dark academia is a literary internet aesthetic and subculture concerned with higher education, the arts, and literature, or an idealised version thereof. The aesthetic centres on traditional education
Campus novel
…Bildungsroman Dark academia Anderson, Christian K. & John R. Thelin (2009). “Campus Life Revealed: Tracking Down the Rich Resources of American Collegiate Fiction.” Journal of…
Gothic architecture is a common element of the dark academia aesthetic.
Dark academia colour palette
The Gothic-styled Riggs Library at Georgetown University
The Humanist Library of Sélestat, France