The Bildungsroman in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Bildungsroman in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Bildung and the German Novel (1774-1848)
• Criticism: Definition And Issues
  • The Novel of Formation as Genre: Between Great Expectations and Lost Illusions
  • The Mystery of the Missing Bildungsroman, or: What Happened to Wilhelm Meister's Legacy?
  • Irony and the Novel: Reflections on the German Bildungsroman
  • The Apprenticeship of the Reader: The Bildungsroman of the ‘Age of Goethe.’
• Criticism: Female Bildungsromane
  • Cultivating Gender: Sexual Difference, Bildung, and the Bildungsroman.
  • Reading Emma as a Lesson on ‘Ladyhood’: A Study in the Domestic Bildungsroman.
  • Jane Eyre and the Self-Constructed Heroine
• Criticism: Ideology And Nationhood
  • The Politics of Genre, Gender, and Canon-Formation: The Early American Bildungsroman and Its Subversions
  • Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: A National Bildungsroman.
  • The Phantom Bildungsroman
  • Le grande jeu and the Great Game: The Politics of Play in Walter Scott's Waverley and Rudyard Kipling's Kim
• Further Reading