1. Introduction: The Concept of "Bildung" Part I: Spirituality 1. Mastery and Apprenticeship(s)-Departing from Goethe's Turm 2. The British Master: Defoe and Dickens: 3. The French Fellow Craft: From Voltaire to Stendhal 4. The Italian Apprentice: Foscolo and Collodi 5. From Bildungsroman to Bildungsreise Part II: Gender 6. The Dissolution of Gendered Plots: Wilhelm Meister and the Beautiful Soul 7. Female Developments in the 19th Century: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Neera's Teresa, Lydia and L'indomani 8. Female Developments in the 20th Century: Sibilla Aleramo's Una donna, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia and Susanna Tamaro's Va' dove ti porta il cuore 9. The Bildungsroman as Spectrum 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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