Session Details

Thursday, 30 December

653. Comparative Approaches to the Bildungsroman

8:30–9:45 a.m., Washington B, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century

Presiding: Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate Univ.

1. “Wilhelm Meister: The Sequel,” Frederick R. Amrine, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Past Detection: Reading Bildung beyond Aesthetic Autonomy, circa 1800,” Aoife Naughton, Tulane Univ.

3. “The Bildungsroman Crosses the Channel: Balzac and Thackeray on the Education of the Writer,” Sarah R. Cole, Columbia Univ.

4. “The Bildungsroman: A Eurocentric Genre?” Todd Curtis Kontje, Univ. of California, San Diego

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