text: While employed at one of these places, Hollis Lomax clashes with the title character of John Williams's novel Stoner.
full_question: While employed at one of these places, Hollis Lomax clashes with the title character of John Williams's novel Stoner. The black conservative Monty Kipps and his liberal rival Howard Belsey are employed at one of these places in Zadie Smith's On Beauty. A rash of suicides at one of these places is caused by the arrival of Zuleika Dobson in a Max Beerbohm novella. An employee of one of these places leaves his coworker and girlfriend Margaret Peel in favor of Christine Callaghan after mocking his boss, Ned (*) Welch, during a speech on "Merrie England". Another of these places is where Charles Ryder meets and befriends Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. For 10 points, identify the setting of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, as well as David Lodge's Campus Trilogy.
first_sentence: While employed at one of these places, Hollis Lomax clashes with the title character of John Williams's novel Stoner.
raw_answer: colleges [or universities; or college campus(es); or university campus(es); prompt on "campuses" or "schools"]