New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman [Hardcover]

Introduction \Part I. SpiritualityGiovanna Summerfield\1. Mastery and Apprenticeship(s): Departing from Goethe's Turm \2. The British Master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling \3. The French Fellow Craft: Voltaire, Pr?vost, Stendhal \4. The Italian Apprentice: Foscolo, Collodi \5. From Bildungsroman to Bildungsreise \Part II. GenderLisa Downward\6. The Dissolution of Gendered Plots: Wilhelm Meister and the Beautiful Soul \7. Female Developments in the Nineteenth Century: Neera'sTeresa,LydiaandL'indomani, George Eliot'sMiddlemarch, Charlotte Bront?'sJane Eyre\8. Female Developments in the Twentieth Century: Sibilla Aleramo'sUna donna, Susanna Tamaro'sVa' dove ti porta il cuore, Virginia Woolf'sTo the Lighthouse\9. The Bildungsroman as Spectrum \Conclusion \Bibliography \Index