Summer | Style
Bildungsroman Summer is a bildungsroman (from the German for “novel about education”), the story of a young person’s development into adulthood. The tradition of the bildungsroman in English literature is strong and includes such important novels as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1849–1850). Typical of the form, Summer begins with Charity, a relatively sheltered young person on the verge of adulthood. Charity has no real responsibilities, and her basic needs are provided for. She is...
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