Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Modernist Literature & Culture)by Jed Esty
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. No reviews no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Series
The bildungsroman, with its elegant arc charting a protagonist's progression from childhood to maturity, is one of literature's most familiar and enduring genres. Yet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a series of novels appeared that began to upend this classical formula. Rather than moving smoothly into adulthood, the characters in these new coming of age fictions seemed to veer off course into a state of suspended or stunted adolescence. Modernist-era novels of unseasonable youth disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNone
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.1009Literature English English fiction Early English 1066-1400LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |