The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960

The first book to examine the historical transformations of the American Bildungsroman through the lens of region Examines the history of the American Bildungsroman’s twentieth century transformations, outlining how the asymmetrical effects of capitalism’s uneven development forced novelists to rethink the genre’s soul-nation allegory through the lens of regionMaps examples from four notable regional variations on the novel of uneven development, including: the naturalist novel of overdevelopmen