Apprenticeships : a storey of the Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana

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. Prologue -- Goethe's Classical Bildungsroman: Mastering The Art Of Living -- The Idea Of Bildung And The Bildungsroman -- David Copperfield's Self-cultivation -- From Pink To Yellow: Growing Up Female In What Maisie Knew And The Portrait Of A Lady -- Forster's The Longest Journey And The Code Of Modern Morals -- Lawrence's Sons And Lovers: We Children Were The In-betweens -- The Philosophical Apprenticeship Of Oliver Alden -- Epilogue. By Thomas L. Jeffers. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [223]-231) And Index. Annotation 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 Front Matter....Pages i-ix Prologue....Pages 1-8 Goethe’s Classical Bildungsroman: Mastering the Art of Living....Pages 9-34 The Idea of Bildung and the Bildungsroman....Pages 35-54 David Copperfield’s Self-Cultivation....Pages 55-87 From Pink to Yellow: Growing Up Female in What Maisie Knew and The Portrait of a Lady....Pages 89-117 Forster’s The Longest Journey and “the code of modern morals”....Pages 119-134 Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers: “We children were the in-betweens”....Pages 135-157 The Philosophical Apprenticeship of Oliver Alden....Pages 159-184 Epilogue....Pages 185-192 Back Matter....Pages 193-246 Novels about growing up have long been loved by ordinary readers & analysed by scholars. This book attempts to clarify & resolve the moral, psychological, social & occasionally religious coming-of-age dilemmas with which scholars have wrestled