TY - BOOK AU - Summerfield,Giovanna AU - Downward,Lisa TI - New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman SN - 9780826434302 (hardcover) AV - PN3448.B54 S86 2010 U1 - 809.39353 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Bildungsromans KW - History and criticism KW - European literature KW - Women authors N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; TOC; 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; English N2 - Summary: Presents new critical approaches to the Bildungsroman by analyzing spiritual, feminist, historicist and modernist perspectives. > UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/perspectives-on-the-european-bildungsroman/oclc/690922152&referer=brief_results ER -