| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 110 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Novel of Development: Genre, Gender, Context. The Bildungsroman: Development of the Hero in the Modern World -- The Female Bildungsroman: Growing up a Woman -- The Female Bildungsroman in (Post)feminist Contexts -- Contemporary Variations of the Classic Female Bildungsroman: Girlhood and the Coming-of-Age Novel -- Chapter Two: The Loss of Innocence: Growing up a Girl in the Twentieth Century. Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1949) -- Rumer Godden, The Greengage Summer (1958) -- Chapter Three: The Rule of the Father: Growing up under Patriarchy. Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop (1967) -- Jane Gardam, Bilgewater (1976) -- Chapter Four: The Conundrum of Girl Power: Growing up at the Turn of the Millennium. Helen Walsh, Brass (2004) -- Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl (2014) -- Chapter Five: Growing up Postfeminist: Contemporary Transformations of the Classic Female Bildungsroman. Susan Fletcher, Eve Green (2004) -- Tiffany Murray, Happy Accidents (2004) -- Chapter Six: Conclusion: the Girl Heroine in a Changing World -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The book discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine - the young white middle-class woman - and present her developments in postwar and postmillennial British literature. In terms of theoretical approaches, the study draws on works by the feminist critics whose incorporation of gender into the studies of the Bildungsroman resulted in the delineation of the female version of the genre, the female Bildungsroman and its specific twentieth-century variation, the feminist Bildungsroman. The selected coming-of-age novels present furt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bildungsromans, English -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literary studies: general.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Bildungsromans, English
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527507036 |
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1527507033 |
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