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New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman / Giovanna Summerfield and Lisa Downward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summerfield, Giovanna, author.
- Downward, Lisa, author.
- Series:
- Continuum literary studies.
- Continuum Literary Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans.
- European literature--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- European literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England ; New York : Continuum, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman reflects the change in direction of research on the Bildungsroman, focusing on more psychological, authorial and feminist contents.Departing from the father of the prototype of the genre, Goethe, the authors trace imperative pathways to its French, British, and Italian counterparts, examining spiritual and female Bildungsromane. A wide-ranging analysis provides fresh insights into the genre through comparative analyses of Bildungsromane both diatopically and diachronically, while critical analysis of novels such as Voltaire''s Candide, Charlotte B
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Part I. Spirituality; 1. Mastery and Apprenticeship(s): Departing from Goethe's Turm; 2. The British Master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling; 3. The French Fellow Craft: From Voltaire to Stendhal; 4. The Italian Apprentice: Foscolo and Collodi; 5. From Bildungsroman to Bildungsreise; Part II. Gender; 6. The Dissolution of Gendered Plots: Wilhelm Meister and the Beautiful Soul; 7. Female Developments in the Nineteenth Century: Neera's Teresa, Lydia and L'indomani, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
- 8. Female Developments in the Twentieth Century: Sibilla Aleramo's Una donna: Susanna Tamaro's Va' dove ti porta il cuore, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse9. The Bildungsroman as Spectrum; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781441151186
- 1441151184
- OCLC:
- 893331102
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