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The Way of the World - The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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The Way of the World - The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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Wilhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julien Sorel, Rastignac, Jane
Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke ... the golden age of the European
novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is
problematic and restless youth-"strange" characters, as their own
creators often say-arising from the downfall of traditional
societies. But even more than that, youth is the symbolic figure
for European modernity: that sudden mix of great expectations and
lost illusions that the bourgeois world learns to "read", and to
accept, as if it were a novel. The Way of the World, with its
unique combination of narrative theory and social history,
interprets the Bildungsroman as the great cultural mediator of
nineteenth-century Europe: a form which explores the many strange
compromises between revolution and restoration, economic take-off
and aesthetic pleasure, individual autonomy and social normality.
This new edition includes an additional final chapter on the
collapse of the Bildungsroman in the years around the First World
War (a crisis which opened the way for modernist experiments), and
a new preface in which the author looks back at The Way of the
World in the light of his more recent work.
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