Victorian fiction as a Bildungsroman : its flourishing and complexity / by Petru Golban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golban, Petru, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bildungsromans--History and criticism.

Bildungsromans.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Metaphorically speaking, the nineteenth-century English Bildungsroman, dealing with the principle of identity formation, parallels Victorian fiction as a whole, revealing the completion of its own formation, which began in the eighteenth century. Significantly, the most important and popular Victorian novels are Bildungsromane, in which authors construct or rather reconstruct their own life experiences as formative processes. This book shows that the Bildungsroman has a development history, is a specific literary system, and consists of a thematic and narrative pattern. It details the entrance of this newly established fictional tradition into Victorian culture and literature through Carlyle's threefold literary reception of the novel of formation and its subsequent flourishing and complexity. In this respect, a number of novelistic works are scrutinized, and each faces the question as to whether its thematic and narrative perspectives fit the pattern and shape of the Bildungsroman.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Preliminaries

1.

2.

Concluding Reflections

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4079-0

OCLC:

1183030554