New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman
By: Giovanna Summerfield and Lisa Downward
Contributors: Downward, Lisa
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780826434302
Subjects: European literature; Women authors; Bildungsromans; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mastery and apprenticeship(s): departing from Goethe's Turm; title: British master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling; title: French fellow craft: Voltaire, Prévost, Stendhal; title: Italian apprentice: Foscolo, Collodi; title: From bildungsroman to bildungsreise; title: The dissolution of gendered plots: Wilhelm Meister and the beautiful soul; title: Female developments in the nineteenth century: Neera's Teresa, Lydia and L'Indomani, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; title: 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; title: The bildungsroman as spectrum.