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The bildungsroman genre in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. An English precursor to the bildungsroman, Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe. Character development and the theme of changing one's mind in Jane Austen's 1813 Pride and Prejudice. Charlotte Brontë's Victorian novel Jane Eyre, which helped establish the concept of female adolescence and made a case for women leading active lives. How Hans Castorp's mental dissolution challenges the traditional bildungsroman's story of growth and socialization in the German author Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, written after World War I.
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