TY - BOOK AU - Boes,Tobias ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Formative fictions: nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman T2 - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought AV - PN3448.B54 B64 2012 U1 - 809.3/9354 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press, Cornell University Library KW - Bildungsromans KW - History and criticism KW - German fiction KW - European fiction KW - Nationalism and literature KW - City and town life in literature KW - Comparative literature KW - German and European KW - European and German KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3138378 ER -