![]() ![]() Because Dixon made an unsure start in the department, he is concerned about losing his position at the end of his probationary first year. The action takes place towards the end of the academic year. Dixon is a northern, grammar school-educated, lower middle class young man and uneasy with the pseudo-intellectual values he meets in academic society. It seems a disastrous trajectory but Jim is 'lucky' and the novel ends with him in possession of a measure of affluence, the London life he craves and the girl. The comedy of the novel is Dixon's rebellion against the cant and pretension he meets in academic life and the uncontrolled escalation of this from private fantasy to public display. Jim Dixon is a medieval history lecturer at a redbrick university in the English Midlands. The year in which the novel is set is not explicit but cannot be later than 1951. ![]()
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