#  The Bildungsroman (grad seminar) 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2015 

 

 

 

An introduction to the most important genre of the novel. We will begin by reading the canonical examples of the *Bildungsroman* (*Wilhelm Meister*, *The Red and the Black*, and *Sentimental Education*), as well as the canonical critical accounts (Hegel and Schiller, Lukacs and Bakhtin, Moretti and Redfield). We will then turn to recent revisionist scholarship: Fraiman on *Mill on the Floss*, Robbins on *Great Expectations*, Slaughter on *Nervous Conditions*, and Esty on *Story of an African Farm*. In the final third of the course, students will present *Bildungsromane* of their own choosing and offer their own critical accounts. Any graduate student interested in the novel, of any language or period, is welcome in this course.