Argyle, Gisela, 1939-

Germany as model and monster allusions in English fiction, 1830s-1930s / [electronic resource] : Gisela Argyle. - Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002. - x, 257 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index.

Bildung and the Bildungsroman -- The Bildungsroman retailored: Carlyle and Goethe -- The Bildungsroman assimilated: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Ernest Maltravers and Alice -- The Bildungsroman as foil: George Meredith's The ordeal of Richard Feverel and The adventures of Harry Richmond -- The "Philistines' nets": George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Regeneration in German keys: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Infidel novels -- Pessimism and its "overcoming": Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Prussianized Germany and the second Weimar Germany.


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






English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
German literature--Appreciation--England.
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
English fiction--German influences.


Germany--In literature.
Germany--Foreign public opinion, British.


Electronic books.

PR868.G36 / A84 2002

823.009/3243