A History of the Bildungsroman

ISBN-13: 9781316501870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 362 str.

Sarah Graham

Opis

This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.

Recenzje

'… an important contribution to modern scholarship on the Bildungsroman. While it will introduce students to the conventional scholarly debates about the Bildungsroman's historical development and its important variants, it will likely do more to expand our sense of the genre's temporal origins, national boundaries, and types of protagonists. The work might even convince its readers that the Bildungsroman is not merely a hegemonic institution increasingly out of step with modernity. Rather, Graham wants to show us that it is also a category of fiction with subversive critiques of sexism, racism, imperialism, and homophobia at its core, and thus still relevant to and alive in our developing century.' Jordan Bunzel, EUP Journal

Spis treści

Introduction Sarah Graham; 1. The German tradition of the Bildungsroman Todd Kontje; 2. The French Bildungsroman Alison Finch; 3. The Bildungsroman and nineteenth-century British fiction Richard Salmon; 4. The Bildungsroman in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union Lina Steiner; 5. The American Bildungsroman Sarah Graham; 6. The modernist Bildungsroman Gregory Castle; 7. Bildungsroman for children and young adults Fiona McCulloch; 8. The female Bildungsroman in the twentieth century Maroula Joannou; 9. The postcolonial Bildungsroman Ericka A. Hoagland; 10. Lesbian, gay and trans Bildungsroman Meredith Miller; 11. Bildungsroman and graphic narratives Ian Gordon.