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The Thatcherite Bildungsroman

Textual Practice, 2020
In 1987, Margaret Thatcher said ‘there is no such thing as society’. If the classic Bildungsroman moves toward integration into the social order, how does the genre register the British 1980s’ valo...
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Bildungsroman

2023
The Bildungsroman, or novel of formation, is one of the most widely used and most adaptable genres in literary history. Characteristically, the plot unfolds through the narrative of a young person’s development and formation that ideally results in “maturity”—a rather contested concept, which is traditionally understood as the harmonious integration of
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Against the Bildungsroman

Modern Language Quarterly, 2019
AbstractTrained on the history of the novel in English, Nancy Armstrong’s Desire and Domestic Fiction also illuminates continental European developments. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, the prototype of the nineteenth-century “novel of development” (bildungsroman), forms itself against domestic fiction and its core principle, that, in Armstrong’s ...
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A Mathematical Bildungsroman

History and Theory, 1989
It is remarkable to what extent the nineteenth-century is a century of error for mathematics: not trivial oversights or amateurish confusion, but fundamental mistakes in the understanding of mathematical concepts and the formulation of mathematical proofs, mistakes not restricted to unknown mathematicians, but occurring in the work of mathematicians of
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