The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture

aesthetic already Bakhtin Balzac Balzacian become Bel-Ami Bildung Black bourgeois capitalism century chapter characters Charterhouse civilization classical Bildungsroman Comédie Humaine common conflict culture Daniel Deronda Darcy David Copperfield desire destiny discourse domain Eliot Elizabeth Bennet English Bildungsroman episode ethical Eugene Onegin everyday everything existence Fabrizio fact Faust final Flaubert forces Frédéric freedom Goethe happiness harmony heteroglossia human ideal individual interests Jane Julien Sorel legitimation London longer Lost Illusions Lucien de Rubempré Lukács maturity meaning Middlemarch Mirah modern narrative narrator nature never nineteenth-century objective one's opposite passion perhaps personality plot political possible precisely Pride and Prejudice problematic protagonist Pushkin Rastignac reader realism reality principle reason relationships Revolution rhetoric Richard Sennett sense Sentimental Education social society Stendhal Stendhal and Pushkin story streben structure success symbolic theory things Tom Jones true truly truth values vocation Wilhelm and Elizabeth Wilhelm Meister words youth