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 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | vii, 381 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Irish 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Irish bildungsroman. First edition Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2025 9780815657323 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2024034010 |
| ISBN | 9780815638537 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0815638531 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780815638544 paperback |
| ISBN | 081563854X paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |