Stević, Aleksandar, <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "This book examines the defining role of failure and inaction in the history of the bildungsroman in nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Europe"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813944043 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019045937 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bildungsromans--History and criticism.<br/>European literature--History and criticism.<br/>Failure (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Maturation (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Self-realization in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3448  / .F355 2020