18 books like New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture Helena Feder · 2016 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Gadis Pantai Pramoedya Ananta Toer · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In a poor coastal fishing village, a beautiful girl unknowingly attracts the attention of a local aristocrat. Before she knows it, she is forced to marry this man she has never seen and leave behind all that is familiar to her - her carefree days spent helping her mother with daily tasks, dreamily listening to the sounds of the wind and the waves, and watching boats come and go. She is taken… Shares Bildungsromans

Der Nachsommer Adalbert Stifter · 1900 · 927p · ≈ 30h · Challenging Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Sinister street Sir Compton Mackenzie · 1913 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world.… Shares Bildungsromans

Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 493p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At… Shares Bildungsromans

Coming of Age in Franco's Spain

Coming of Age in Franco's Spain Michael D. Thomas · 1899 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Bildungsromans, History and criticism with this book.

Unbecoming women Susan Fraiman · 1993 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up." "In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen,… Shares Women authors, Bildungsromans, History and criticism

Gender and the self in Latin American literature Emma Staniland · 2015 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Women authors, Bildungsromans, History and criticism with this book.

Women's Life Writing And Imagined Communities Cynthia Huff · 2004 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Women's life writings provide an incomparable window into the various cultural and historical communities in which we live. This book presents a unique view of this great legacy by critically examining how these writings both reflect and shape our communities. It draws on a wealth of material such as novels, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, religious records and many other sources, from many… Shares Women authors, History and criticism

The lamplighter Maria S. Cummins · 1854 · ★ 4.1 · 516p · ≈ 17h · Challenging A novel of female development, The Lamplighter is a woman's version of the quest story. Its heroine, Gerty, comes on the scene as a child abandoned in the slums of Boston. Rescued by the kindly lamplighter Trueman Flint, she learns to meet life with courage and honesty. The novel ... remained continuously in print until the 1920s ... [and was] second in mid-century popularity only to Uncle Tom's… Shares Women authors, Bildungsromans

Volos, i︠a︡zycheskoe bozhestvo slavi︠a︡no-russov, sravnennoe s Odinom skandinavov

Volos, i︠a︡zycheskoe bozhestvo slavi︠a︡no-russov, sravnennoe s Odinom skandinavov Stefan Sabinin · 1843 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares History and criticism with this book.

King Arthur in history and legend William Lewis Jones · 1911 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares History and criticism with this book.

Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature Heike Hartung · 2015 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans, History and criticism with this book.

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch · 1974 · ★ 3.9 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This is a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Sacred and profane love are related opposites; the one enjoyed renders the other necessary, so that the ever unsatisfied heart swings constantly to and fro. Shares Women authors

Of time and the river Thomas Wolfe · 1935 · ★ 4.2 · 912p · ≈ 30h · Challenging This book continues the story of Eugene Gant, the protagonist in Look Homeward Angel. If you have read and liked Angel you should definitely follow through and read this(vol 1 and 2). Autobiographical in nature.. Shares Bildungsromans

Everyday Jews Yehoshue Perle · 2007 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Utopian Visions and Revisions Artur Blaim · 2016 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares History and criticism with this book.

Where No Man Has Gone Before Lucie Armitt · 1991 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Women authors, History and criticism with this book.

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