1. Introduction -- 2. Nineteenth-century formulations: changing a tradition Spiritual Bildung: the beautiful soul as paradigm / Marianne Hirsch -- The novel of awakening / Susan J. Rosowski -- "Fairy-born and human-bred": Jane Eyre's education in romance / Karen E. Rowe -- The reflecting reader in Villette / Brenda R. Silver -- Female stories of experience: Alcott's Little women in light of Work / Elizabeth Langland -- 3. Twentieth-century reformulations: claiming a tradition The sisterhood of Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway / Elizabeth R. Baer -- Revolutionary turnings: The mountain lion reread / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Narrative structure(s) and female development: the case of Mrs. Dalloway / Elizabeth Abel -- Doris Lessing and the parables of growth / Catharine R. Stimpson -- 4. Contemporary transformations: creating new traditions Through the looking glass: when women tell fairy tales / Ellen Cronan Rose -- The female novel of development and the myth of psyche / Mary Anne Ferguson -- Exiting from patriarchy: the lesbian novel of development / Bonnie Zimmerman -- "Why are you afraid to have me at your side?": from passivity to power in Salt of the Earth / Margo Kasdan -- Plain, Black, and decently wild: the heroic possibilities of Maud Martha / Mary helen Washington -- Family ties: female development in Clarice Lispector / Marta Peixoto -- Shadowing/surfacing/shedding: contemporary German writers in search of a female Bildungsroman / Sandra Frieden
Analysis
Fiction in English Women writers 1837-1975
Notes
"Fictions of female development cited in this volume": p. 357-359
