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The Irish bildungsroman / edited by Gregory Castle, Sarah L. Townsend, and Matthew L. Reznicek.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Irish studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bildungsromans, English--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans, English.
- English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 387 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of the development of the Bildungsroman genre in Ireland from the nineteenth century to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Ireland, the act of union, and blighted becoming / Mary Mullen
- The gothic Bildungsroman / Christina Morin
- (Re)building self and country : rebels, landlords, and landladies in famine fiction of the 1870s and 1880s / Lindsay Janssen
- The Irish land war and the Bildungsroman / Heidi Hansson
- Pigs back or enchanted isle : mapping the West in the Irish Bildungsroman / Elizabeth Grubgeld
- "A young woman of refined mind" : the developing artist type in apprenticeship narratives by George Moore and Edith Somerville and Martin Ross / Julie Anne Stevens
- Epiphany and the aesthetico-spiritual foundation of James Joyce's Bildungsroman / Barry Devine
- Bildung and the aesthetic life in Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray and Elizabeth Bowen's the Last september / Gregory Castle
- On the modernist novel and disability aesthetics : Beckett from Bildungsroman to Entartungsroman / Patrick Bixby
- (En)gendering deviations from the norm : reflections on Bildungsromane from the north of Ireland / Fiona McCann
- Emma Donoghue's queer Bildungsromane : Hood and the Pull of the stars / Molly Ferguson
- Bildung and the non-reproductive female body in contemporary Irish women's writing / Ellen Scheible
- Immigrant writing and new narratives of self-formation : Landawo and Theophilus Ejorh / Pilar Villar-Argáiz.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8156-5732-3
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