Variants of the Romantic 'Bildungsroman' (with a short note on the 'artist novel')

What is it about?

1. The >Bildungsroman« (novel of formation): Towards a definition -- 2. The Bildungsroman in the High Romantic mode - 2.1 Beginnings: Goethe's »Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre« (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Years, 1795/96) - 2.2 Novalis's »Heinrich von Ofterdingen« (1802): A radical version of the »Bildungsroman« in the High Romantic mode - 2.3 The genre-type and its variants (Wordsworth, »The Prelude«; Thomas Carlyle, »Sartor Resartus«; Gérard de Nerval's »Aurélia, ou le Rêve de Ia Vie«) -- 3. From the Bildungsroman to the novel of disillusion - 3.1 » Weak« variants of the Romantic Bildungsroman: »Romance« vs. »novel« (Thomas De Quincey's »Confessions of an English Opium-Eater«, »Suspiria de Profundis«; Charlotte Bronte's »Jane Eyre«; Edgar Allan Poe's »The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket«) - 3.2 Towards the »novel of disillusion« (Stendhal's »Le Rouge et le Noir«; Balzac's »Illusions perdues«) -- 4. Conclusion: The Bildungsroman in the genre-system of Romantic fiction (with a short note on the »artist novel«)

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