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Germany as model and monster : allusions in English fiction, 1830s-1930s /

By examining the works of George Eliot, Carlyle, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Meredith, George Gissing, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, as well as several post-World War II novels, Argyle explores the Goethean ideal of Bildung and the Bildungsroman (self-culture and the apprenticeshi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Argyle, Gisela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.