Victorian Fiction As A Bildungsroman
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Author | : Petru Golban |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527540790 |
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Metaphorically speaking, the nineteenth-century English Bildungsroman, dealing with the principle of identity formation, parallels Victorian fiction as a whole, revealing the completion of its own formation, which began in the eighteenth century. Significantly, the most important and popular Victorian novels are Bildungsromane, in which authors construct or rather reconstruct their own life experiences as formative processes. This book shows that the Bildungsroman has a development history, is a specific literary system, and consists of a thematic and narrative pattern. It details the entrance of this newly established fictional tradition into Victorian culture and literature through Carlyle’s threefold literary reception of the novel of formation and its subsequent flourishing and complexity. In this respect, a number of novelistic works are scrutinized, and each faces the question as to whether its thematic and narrative perspectives fit the pattern and shape of the Bildungsroman.
Author | : Lisa Rodensky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 829 |
Release | : 2013-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199533148 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.
Author | : Patrick Brantlinger |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470997206 |
Download A Companion to the Victorian Novel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them. Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. Ideal for students and researchers seeking up-to-the-minute coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.
Author | : Petru Golban |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2018-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527516768 |
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This book establishes a vector of methodology in the approach to a particular type of fictional discourse, namely the English Bildungsroman (the novel of identity formation). Its wide-ranging critical perspectives are also useful to anyone concerned with, first of all, European and English novelistic genres, but also to those interested in theoretical perspectives of modern fiction studies in general, as well as in certain aspects of Western literature as a developing tradition.
Author | : Sally Ledger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107377498 |
Download Charles Dickens in Context Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author | : Sarah Graham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107136539 |
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This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.
Author | : Barry V. Qualls |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1982-10-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521244091 |
Download The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines the attempts of four great Victorians to write what amounted to latter-day 'Pilgrim's Progresses'. Writing in and for an age whose spiritual needs and assumptions differed utterly from those of Bunyan, they produced very different kinds of books from his - but books which still owed as much to the puritan tradition of Pilgrim's Progress and Quarles Emblems, of spiritual biography and the typological reading of scripture, as to the secular redefinition of that tradition in the early nineteenth century. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus represents the closest convergence-point of these two sources. In its effort to combine traditional religious language and later Romantic ideas within the doctrine of 'natural supernaturalism', it may be seen as the prototypical Victorian novel - a Pilgrim's Progress whose hero must write his own guidebook, his own book of life. Professor Qualls uses Carlyle as a context for studying the thematic concerns and narrative activities of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
Author | : Catharina Kern |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2007-08-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3638754782 |
Download The Realisation of Jane Eyre as a Bildungsroman Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bayreuth, course: Heroins of Victorian Fiction, language: English, abstract: Every human being undergoes changes during his life-time. From childhood through adolescence until old age he or she is constantly in a learning process. One can never say that a person is absolutely mature and at the end of his or her maturing process but one can say that there are certain steps in life most people pass or go through. Also Jane Eyre betakes herself on the journey of life and in the novel the reader can watch the different steps she passes and accompanies her. On the one hand they can observe her behaviour objectively, her changes, her maturing process, her fears and challenges in a distant and objective way. They see how other people manage their life and are made aware of their changes without directly being a part of it. On the other hand the reader is able to identify with Jane Eyre and imagine how she must feel because, as I said before, every person changes during their life and experiences certain problems and challenges. Although those must not necessarily be exactly the same as Jane experiences, we can feel with her. There is just a certain amount of feelings a human being is able to feel and as we, together with Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë and many others, belong to the same species we feel similar for example about things like love. [...] I think it is exactly this point of identifying with the heroine that makes Jane Eyre such a popular novel and that also draw my attention to it. However, it is even more the specific topic of the genre Bildungsroman that caught my interest. The development of a character, no matter if in fiction or reality, is always interesting and inspiring. Jane is not afraid of changes and shows the intention to go on the journey to herself. She plays the "inner wheel" to change her life for the better. In my
Author | : Alice Crossley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2018-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317102126 |
Download Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless distinguishable from other masculine types. Important more as a stage of psychological awareness and maturation than as a period of biological youth, Crossley argues that the plasticity of male adolescence provides Meredith, Thackeray, and Trollope with opportunities for self-reflection and social criticism while also working as a paradigm for narrative and imaginative inquiry about motivation, egotism, emotional and physical relationships, and the possibilities of self-creation. Adolescence emerges as a crucial stage of individual growth, adopted by these authors in order to reflect more fully on cultural and personal anxieties about manliness. The centrality of male youth in these authors’ novels, Crossley demonstrates, repositions age-consciousness as an integral part of nineteenth-century debates about masculine heterogeneity.
Author | : George Levine |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Download How to Read the Victorian Novel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.