Falling short : the bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning /
"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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2020.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvzgb7sk |
Table of Contents:
- 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, ca. 1885-1914
- Madame de Guermantes and Other Animals: Proust and the Forms of Pleasure
- Epilogue: Historicizing the Bildungsroman.