The Mystery of the Missing Bildungsroman, or: What Happened to Wilhelm Meister’s Legacy?
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Bildung, Bildungsroman, Nineteenth-century German novel, CanonizationAbstract
The point here is to prove that the claim that the Bildungsroman is the most characteristic genre of 19th century Germany is false. It is a “legend” elaborated by Wilhelm Dilthey and others in the context of the founding of the Second Reich, in what can be called the “Wilhelminian process of canonization”. From this point onwards, the Wilhelm Meister and the romantic novels were exalted as “typically” German, to the detriment of a broad and rich realist tradition with many points in common with the literary development of other Western countries.
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