Apprenticeships : The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana / by T. Jeffers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffers, Thomas L., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature.

Fiction.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

European Literature.

Fiction Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Local Subjects:

European Literature.

Fiction Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Novels about growing up have long been loved by ordinary readers and analyzed, sometimes with more heat than light, by scholars. This book respects the interests of ordinary readers while clarifying and frequently resolving the moral, psychological, social, and occasionally religious coming-of-age dilemmas that scholars have wrestled with. Focusing on Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, Dickens's David Copperfield, James's What Maisie Knew, Forster's The Longest Journey, Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and Santayana's The Last Puritan, Jeffers writes in a fresh, engaging style meant to give criticism a liveliness and even brilliance it has in recent decades often lacked.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1 Goethe's Classical Bildungsroman: Mastering the Art of Living

2 The Idea of Bildung and the Bildungsroman

3 David Copperfield's Self-Cultivation

4 From Pink to Yellow: Growing Up Female in What Maisie Knew and The Portrait of a Lady

5 Forster's The Longest Journey and "the code of modern morals"

6 Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: "We children were the in-betweens"

7 The Philosophical Apprenticeship of Oliver Alden

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

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M

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.

ISBN:

9786611364434

9781281364432

1281364436

9781403979155

1403979154

OCLC:

560536126