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Author:

Stević, Aleksandar, author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018072583

Title:

Falling short : the bildungsroman and the crisis of self-fashioning / Aleksandar Stević.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 250 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Subject:

Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
European literature--History and criticism.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Bildungsromans.
European literature.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

"This book examines the defining role of failure and inaction in the history of the bildungsroman in nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0813944031
9780813944036
0813944023
9780813944029

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1123239387

LCCN:

2019045936

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)