{"product_id":"the-regional-development-of-the-american-bildungsroman-1900-1960-9781474489973","title":"The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tamlyn Avery\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Coming of Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did the Bildungsroman, defined as the novel of development, and its protagonist Youth, become the symbolic form of the U.S.'s cultural preoccupation with regional difference amidst the nation's rapid but uneven development c.1900-1960? As a genre that historically represented the young individual's development in national-historical time, the Bildungsroman became one crucial means of configuring the culturally, politically, and economically asymmetrical effects of national modernization and the U.S.'s political ascendence within the capitalist world-system. Responding to that predicament, the \u003ci\u003enovel of uneven development \u003c\/i\u003erose to salience\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eled by its protagonist, the \u003ci\u003eunfixed youth\u003c\/i\u003e, whose development within the national-historical time of Americanization is unsettled by their preoccupation with regional difference: an immobilizing entanglement I call American literature's \u003ci\u003eregional complex. \u003c\/i\u003eThis book maps four prominent variations across the Midwest, Northeast, South, and Southwest that responded to that uneven development, fragmenting, and ultimately denying the Bildungsroman's consolidation into a coherent nationalist form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46441348268183,"sku":"9781474489973","price":3742.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781474489973.webp?v=1769118536","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-regional-development-of-the-american-bildungsroman-1900-1960-9781474489973","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}