Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Formative fictions nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / [electronic resource] : Tobias Boes. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012. - x, 201 p. - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Doblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780801465659 (electronic bk.)




Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
German fiction--History and criticism.
European fiction--History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature.
City and town life in literature.
Comparative literature--German and European.
Comparative literature--European and German.


Electronic books.

PN3448.B54 / B64 2012

809.3/9354