| Author/Contributor(s): | Summerfield, Giovanna ; Downward, Lisa |
| Publisher: | Continuum |
| Date: | 12/13/2010 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Introduction \Part I. Spirituality Giovanna Summerfield \1. Mastery and Apprenticeship(s): Departing from Goethe's Turm \2. The British Master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling \3. The French Fellow Craft: Voltaire, Prévost, Stendhal \4. The Italian Apprentice: Foscolo, Collodi \5. From Bildungsroman to Bildungsreise \Part II. Gender Lisa Downward \6. The Dissolution of Gendered Plots: Wilhelm Meister and the Beautiful Soul \7. Female Developments in the Nineteenth Century: Neera's Teresa, Lydia and L'indomani, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre \8. Female Developments in the Twentieth Century: Sibilla Aleramo's Una donna, Susanna Tamaro's Va' dove ti porta il cuore, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse \9. The Bildungsroman as Spectrum \Conclusion \Bibliography \Index