Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism remains of equal importance in the era of postfeminism. The female Bildung narrative has acquired an important position in twentieth - and twenty-first century literature through its continuing depiction of female self-discovery and emancipation as a process of negotiating the traditional divisions of female and male roles in relation to the private and public spaces. Recognizing the seminal contr

English literature --- Bildungsromans --- Bildungsroman --- Women authors --- History and criticism.