Victorian Fiction As A Bildungsroman

Author : Petru Golban
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 373 pages
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Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527540798

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Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman by Petru Golban Pdf

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 : George Levine
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124080156

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How to Read the Victorian Novel by George Levine Pdf

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.

Author : Patrick Brantlinger,William Thesing
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470997208

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A Companion to the Victorian Novel by Patrick Brantlinger,William Thesing Pdf

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 : Catharina Kern
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638754781

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The Realisation of Jane Eyre as a Bildungsroman by Catharina Kern Pdf

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, 12 entries in the bibliography, 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 Bront 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 chang

Author : Barry V. Qualls
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521244099

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The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction by Barry V. Qualls Pdf

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 : Petru Golban
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527516762

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A History of the Bildungsroman by Petru Golban Pdf

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 : Sarah Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107136533

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A History of the Bildungsroman by Sarah Graham Pdf

This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.

Author : Rebecca Rainof
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821445389

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The Victorian Novel of Adulthood by Rebecca Rainof Pdf

In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian culture, and the possibilities of fiction. Reading works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, John Henry Newman, and Virginia Woolf, Rainof exposes the little-discussed theological underpinnings of plot and situates the novel of maturity in intellectual and religious history, notably the Oxford Movement. Purgatory, a subject hotly debated in the period, becomes a guiding metaphor for midlife adventure in secular fiction. Rainof discusses theological models of gradual maturation, thus directing readers’ attention away from evolutionary theory and geology, and offers a new historical framework for understanding Victorian interest in slow and deliberate change.

Author : Lisa Rodensky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199533145

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The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky Pdf

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 : Alice Crossley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317102120

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Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction by Alice Crossley Pdf

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 : Philip Steer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108484428

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Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature by Philip Steer Pdf

A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.

Author : Gregory Vargo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107197855

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An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction by Gregory Vargo Pdf

Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555071003

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Phantastes by George MacDonald Pdf

Author : Carolyn Lesjak
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822388340

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Working Fictions by Carolyn Lesjak Pdf

Working Fictions takes as its point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for their own enjoyment or satisfaction. In this striking reconceptualization of Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak interrogates the relationship between labor and pleasure, two concepts that were central to the Victorian imagination and the literary output of the era. Through the creation of a new genealogy of the “labor novel,” Lesjak challenges the prevailing assumption about the portrayal of work in Victorian fiction, namely that it disappears with the fall from prominence of the industrial novel. She proposes that the “problematic of labor” persists throughout the nineteenth century and continues to animate texts as diverse as Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, George Eliot’s Felix Holt and Daniel Deronda, Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, and the essays and literary work of William Morris and Oscar Wilde. Lesjak demonstrates how the ideological work of the literature of the Victorian era, the “golden age of the novel,” revolved around separating the domains of labor and pleasure and emphasizing the latter as the proper realm of literary representation. She reveals how the utopian works of Morris and Wilde grapple with this divide and attempt to imagine new relationships between work and pleasure, relationships that might enable a future in which work is not the antithesis of pleasure. In Working Fictions, Lesjak argues for the contemporary relevance of the “labor novel,” suggesting that within its pages lie resources with which to confront the gulf between work and pleasure that continues to characterize our world today.

Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400842186

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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price Pdf

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.