English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Feminist Literary Criticism, Women Authors - American (U.S.) - Literary Criticism, Women Authors - British - Literary Criticis
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Overview
Questions of female development shape women's studies in many fields as women seek to define those forces which mold their experiences. Surprisingly, this is the first book to study systematically and from a comparative perspective the female novel of development, or Bildungsroman. Prevailing definitions of the Bildungsroman derive from the conceptions of development based on male experience. The book offers an expanded generic model that incorporates the distinctively female patterns of realization and failed realization which emerge from the limited social opportunities depicted in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel and from the particular features of women's maturation as revealed by recent feminist psychoanalytic research.Synopsis
Questions of female development shape women’s studies in many fields as women seek to define those forces which mold their experiences. Surprisingly, this is the first book to study systematically and from a comparative perspective the female novel of development, or Bildungsroman. Prevailing definitions of the Bildungsroman derive from the conceptions of development based on male experience. The book offers an expanded generic model that incorporates the distinctively female patterns of realization and failed realization which emerge from the limited social opportunities depicted in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel and from the particular features of women’s maturation as revealed by recent feminist psychoanalytic research.Editorials
From the Publisher
"A valuable guidebook on the process of writing a life of one's own."--New Directions for Women"An important new addition to contemporary feminist literary criticism, another vital link in a lengthening chain of works which explore and evaluate the nature of women's experiences...a significant contribution."--The Women's Review of Books
Book Details
Published
June 1, 1983
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pages
376
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780874512519