Buckley, Jerome Hamilton, Season of Youth: The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding, Harvard University Press, 1974.
A study of the Bildungsroman in British literature
that reviews a dozen major novels and several minor
ones, this book shows the wide variations achieved
in the genre.
Deck, Alice A., "Ten Is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman," in African American Review, Vol. 33, Issue 1, Spring 1999, pp. 159-161.
This article is a review and synopsis of Geta LeSeur's
book that examines the successful use of the Bildungsroman
genre by black authors in the United States and the Caribbean.
Kontje, Todd Curtis, The German Bildungsroman: History of a National Genre, Camden House, 1993.
This book is a critical overview of the Bildungsroman
from the 1790s to the 1990s. Kontje examines
the history and.....
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