Title: New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman /
Authors: Summerfield, Giovanna; Downward, Lisa.
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Bildungsromans History and criticism.; European literature History and criticism.; European literature Women authors History and criticism.
Contents: Mastery and apprenticeship(s): departing from Goethe's Turm -- The British master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling -- The French fellow craft: from Voltaire to Stendhal -- The Italian apprentice: Foscolo and 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.