Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman: Its Flourishing and Complexity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527538269)

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 Carlyleâ (TM)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: Petru Golban
ISBN-10: 1527538265
ISBN-13: 9781527538269
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2019
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.90w x 1.10d