New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman /
Summerfield, Giovanna.
New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman / Giovanna Summerfield and Lisa Downward. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2010. - 200 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mastery and apprenticeship(s): departing from Goethe's Turm -- British master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling -- French fellow craft: Voltaire, Prévost, Stendhal -- Italian apprentice: Foscolo, Collodi -- From bildungsroman to bildungsreise -- The dissolution of gendered plots: Wilhelm Meister and the beautiful soul -- Female developments in the nineteenth century: Neera's Teresa, Lydia and L'Indomani, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre -- 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 lighthouse -- The bildungsroman as spectrum. TOC
Summary:
Presents new critical approaches to the Bildungsroman by analyzing spiritual, feminist, historicist and modernist perspectives. >
9780826434302 (hardcover) 0826434304
2010000330
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
European literature--History and criticism.
European literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
PN3448.B54 / S86 2010
809.39353 / SUN 2010
New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman / Giovanna Summerfield and Lisa Downward. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2010. - 200 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mastery and apprenticeship(s): departing from Goethe's Turm -- British master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling -- French fellow craft: Voltaire, Prévost, Stendhal -- Italian apprentice: Foscolo, Collodi -- From bildungsroman to bildungsreise -- The dissolution of gendered plots: Wilhelm Meister and the beautiful soul -- Female developments in the nineteenth century: Neera's Teresa, Lydia and L'Indomani, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre -- 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 lighthouse -- The bildungsroman as spectrum. TOC
Summary:
Presents new critical approaches to the Bildungsroman by analyzing spiritual, feminist, historicist and modernist perspectives. >
9780826434302 (hardcover) 0826434304
2010000330
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
European literature--History and criticism.
European literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
PN3448.B54 / S86 2010
809.39353 / SUN 2010