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- catalog abstract ""Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up." "In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Elliot, Susan Fraiman argues that a heroine's progress toward masterful selfhood is by no means assured. Focusing on "counternarratives" in which girls do not enter the world so much as flounder on its doorstep, Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority." "By stressing the rival stories in a single text, Unbecoming Women provides a fresh assessment of the Bildungsroman. Instead of the usual question - "How does the hero of this novel come of age?"--Fraiman asks "What are the divergent developmental narratives at work, and what can they tell us about competing ideologies concerning the feminine?"" "Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasizes the subversive as well as dialectical aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling work of literary criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also post-modernizes the novel of development."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3794939.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up." "In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Elliot, Susan Fraiman argues that a heroine's progress toward masterful selfhood is by no means assured. Focusing on "counternarratives" in which girls do not enter the world so much as flounder on its doorstep, Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority." "By stressing the rival stories in a single text, Unbecoming Women provides a fresh assessment of the Bildungsroman. Instead of the usual question - "How does the hero of this novel come of age?"--Fraiman asks "What are the divergent developmental narratives at work, and what can they tell us about competing ideologies concerning the feminine?"" "Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasizes the subversive as well as dialectical aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling work of literary criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also post-modernizes the novel of development."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-181) and index.".
- catalog description "Is there a female Bildungsroman? -- Getting waylaid in Evelina -- The humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet -- Jane Eyre's fall from grace -- The Mill on the floss, the critics, and the Bildungsroman.".
- catalog extent "xv, 189 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "023108000X".
- catalog identifier "0231080018 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Gender and culture".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823.009/9287 20".
- catalog subject "Bildungsromans, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Bildungsromans.".
- catalog subject "English fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Maturation (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR830.W6 F73 1993".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Is there a female Bildungsroman? -- Getting waylaid in Evelina -- The humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet -- Jane Eyre's fall from grace -- The Mill on the floss, the critics, and the Bildungsroman.".
- catalog title "Unbecoming women : British women writers and the novel of development / Susan Fraiman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".