The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960
Series: Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 21 February 2023
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474489966
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 463 g
- Language English 439
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Short description:
The first book to examine the historical transformations of the American Bildungsroman through the lens of region.
MoreLong description:
Why did the Bildungsroman, defined as the novel of development, and its protagonist Youth, become the symbolic form of the U.S.’s cultural preoccupation with regional difference amidst the nation’s rapid but uneven development c.1900–1960? As a genre that historically represented the young individual’s development in national-historical time, the Bildungsroman became one crucial means of configuring the culturally, politically, and economically asymmetrical effects of national modernization and the U.S.’s political ascendence within the capitalist world-system. Responding to that predicament, the novel of uneven development rose to salience, led by its protagonist, the unfixed youth, whose development within the national-historical time of Americanization is unsettled by their preoccupation with regional difference: an immobilizing entanglement I call American literature’s regional complex. This book maps four prominent variations across the Midwest, Northeast, South, and Southwest that responded to that uneven development, fragmenting, and ultimately denying the Bildungsroman’s consolidation into a coherent nationalist form.
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INTRODUCTION. The U.S. Bildungsroman’s Regional Complex
PART ONE. MIDWESTERN NATURALISMChapter 1. Industrial Folklore and the Regional Ingénue in Dreiser and SinclairChapter 2. Developing the Countryside: Cather and Hughes’s Poetics of RuralityChapter 3. South Side’s Overdevelopment: Farrell and Wright’s Extreme Youths
PART TWO. THE NORTHEAST’S YOUNG AESTHETESChapter 4. Emplacing Modernism: The Fitzgeralds and the Artist’s Regional ComplexChapter 5. Thurman and Fauset’s Portraits of Harlem’s Regional Artist
PART THREE. SOUTHERN UNDERDEVELOPMENT Chapter 6. Imagining the Region of UnderdevelopmentChapter 7. The Way of the World: Hurston’s Folkloric BildungsromanChapter 8. Caught and Loose: McCullers, O’Connor, and the Gothic Bildungsroman
PART FOUR. SOUTHWEST FRONTIERSChapter 9. Mathews at the Limits of the Bildungsroman’s National Framework
AFTERWORD. Situating the Bildungsroman’s Transnational AfterlivesWORKS CITED
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