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Appearing to diminish : female development and the British bildungsroman, 1750-1850
- Title
- Appearing to diminish : female development and the British bildungsroman, 1750-1850 / Lorna Ellis.
- Author
- Ellis, Lorna, 1967-
- Publication
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1999.
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Details
- Description
- 205 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Young women in literature
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
- Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism
- Bildungsromans > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Maturation (Psychology) in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-195) and index.
- Contents
- Gender, development, and the Bildungsroman -- Amatory fiction as precursor to the Bildungsroman -- Reacting to romance and building the Bildungsroman: the female Quixote and Betsy Thoughtless -- Evelina: appearing to be a Bildungsroman -- Seeing and "fit to be seen" Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeth Bennett Jane Eyre and the self-constructed heroine -- Epilogue: growing up after the Bildungsroman: tragic paradigms.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-8450
- ISBN
- 0838754112 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98047709
- OCLC
- 40159003
- Author
- Ellis, Lorna, 1967-
- Title
- Appearing to diminish : female development and the British bildungsroman, 1750-1850 / Lorna Ellis.
- Imprint
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-195) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-8450