Appearing to diminish : female development and the British bildungsroman, 1750-1850 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ellis, Lorna, 1967-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg [Pa.] : London : Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses, [1999]
Subjects:	English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism. English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Maturation (Psychology) in literature. Young women in literature. Bildungsromans > History and criticism.

Table of 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.