Falling short : the bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning /
Stević, Aleksandar,
Falling short : the bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning / Bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning Aleksandar Stević. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (x, 250 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: On Taking Failure Seriously -- Lucien de Rubempré and the Politics of Usurpation in Post-Napoleonic France -- The Great Evasion: Dickensian Bildungsroman and the Logic of Dependency -- Charlotte Brontë and the Governess as a Liberal Subject -- Portrait of the Hero as an Ideologue, circa 1885-1914 -- Madame de Guermantes and Other Animals: Proust and the Forms of Pleasure -- Epilogue: Historicizing the Bildungsroman.
"This book examines the defining role of failure and inaction in the history of the bildungsroman in nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Europe"--
9780813944043
2019045937
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
European literature--History and criticism.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Electronic Books.
PN3448 / .F355 2020
Falling short : the bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning / Bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning Aleksandar Stević. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (x, 250 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: On Taking Failure Seriously -- Lucien de Rubempré and the Politics of Usurpation in Post-Napoleonic France -- The Great Evasion: Dickensian Bildungsroman and the Logic of Dependency -- Charlotte Brontë and the Governess as a Liberal Subject -- Portrait of the Hero as an Ideologue, circa 1885-1914 -- Madame de Guermantes and Other Animals: Proust and the Forms of Pleasure -- Epilogue: Historicizing the Bildungsroman.
"This book examines the defining role of failure and inaction in the history of the bildungsroman in nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Europe"--
9780813944043
2019045937
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
European literature--History and criticism.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Electronic Books.
PN3448 / .F355 2020