Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana

Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana
ISBN-10
1403979154
ISBN-13
9781403979155
Series
Apprenticeships
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
2005-05-05
Publisher
Springer
Author
T. Jeffers

Description

Novels about growing up have long been loved by ordinary readers and analyzed, sometimes with more heat than light, by scholars. This book respects the interests of ordinary readers while clarifying and frequently resolving the moral, psychological, social, and occasionally religious coming-of-age dilemmas that scholars have wrestled with. Focusing on Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, Dickens's David Copperfield, James's What Maisie Knew, Forster's The Longest Journey, Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and Santayana's The Last Puritan, Jeffers writes in a fresh, engaging style meant to give criticism a liveliness and even brilliance it has in recent decades often lacked.

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