The Irish bildungsroman / edited by Gregory Castle, Sarah L. Townsend, and Matthew L. Reznicek.

Other author Castle, Gregory, editor.
Other author Reznicek, Matthew L., editor.
Other author Townsend, Sarah L., editor.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationSyracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionvii, 381 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesIrish studies
Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.) ^A127474
Contents Ireland, the act of union, and blighted becoming / Mary Mullen -- The gothic Bildungsroman / Christina Morin -- (Re)building self and country : rebels, landlords, and landladies in famine fiction of the 1870s and 1880s / Lindsay Janssen -- The Irish land war and the Bildungsroman / Heidi Hansson -- Pigs back or enchanted isle : mapping the West in the Irish Bildungsroman / Elizabeth Grubgeld -- "A young woman of refined mind" : the developing artist type in apprenticeship narratives by George Moore and Edith Somerville and Martin Ross / Julie Anne Stevens -- Epiphany and the aesthetico-spiritual foundation of James Joyce's Bildungsroman / Barry Devine -- Bildung and the aesthetic life in Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray and Elizabeth Bowen's the Last september / Gregory Castle -- On the modernist novel and disability aesthetics : Beckett from Bildungsroman to Entartungsroman / Patrick Bixby -- (En)gendering deviations from the norm : reflections on Bildungsromane from the north of Ireland / Fiona McCann -- Emma Donoghue's queer Bildungsromane : Hood and the Pull of the stars / Molly Ferguson -- Bildung and the non-reproductive female body in contemporary Irish women's writing / Ellen Scheible -- Immigrant writing and new narratives of self-formation : Landawo and Theophilus Ejorh / Pilar Villar-Argáiz.
Abstract "This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of the development of the Bildungsroman genre in Ireland from the nineteenth century to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Irish bildungsroman. First edition Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2025 9780815657323
Genre/formLiterary criticism.
Genre/formCritiques littéraires.
LCCN 2024034010
ISBN9780815638537 hardcover
ISBN0815638531 hardcover
ISBN9780815638544 paperback
ISBN081563854X paperback
ISBNelectronic book