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Some of the most important and popular Victorian novels are Bildungsromane, in
which authors construct or rather reconstruct their own life experiences as formative
processes. To mention just David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The
Mill on the Floss, Marius the Epicurean, and so on. Following its long development
history from ancient narratives to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, the
Bildungsroman enters as a newly established fictional tradition into Victorian culture
and literature through Carlyle’s threefold literary reception of the novel of formation
and displays its subsequent flourishing and complexity as a literary system
encompassing particular thematic and narrative patterns. In this study, a number of
novelistic works by Henry James are scrutinized, and each faces the question as to
whether its thematic and narrative perspectives fit the pattern and shape of the
Bildungsroman.
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