TY - BOOK AU - Boes,Tobias ED - Project Muse. TI - Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" T2 - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought SN - 9780801465659 AV - PN3448.B54 B64 2012 U1 - 809.3/9354 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press, Cornell University Library KW - Comparative literature KW - European and German KW - German and European KW - City and town life in literature KW - Nationalism and literature KW - European fiction KW - History and criticism KW - German fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24205/ ER -