Formative fictions : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman /
Boes, Tobias,1976-
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index.
The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.
Bildungsromans
German fiction
European fiction
Nationalism and literature.
City and town life in literature.
Comparative literature
Comparative literature