Apprenticeships : the Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana / by Thomas L. Jeffers.
"In this examination of the Bildungsroman, Thomas Jeffers considers how the eighteenth-century idea of self-cultivation was expressed in the novel. Invoking a variety of works, from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Dickens's David Copperfield to Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Santaya...
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| Other title: | Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Summary: | "In this examination of the Bildungsroman, Thomas Jeffers considers how the eighteenth-century idea of self-cultivation was expressed in the novel. Invoking a variety of works, from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Dickens's David Copperfield to Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Santayana's The Last Puritan, he argues that reading coming-of-age stories from the past can shed light on the coming-of-age ordeals young people and their families face in the present."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 246 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1403966079 (alk. paper) |