Apprenticeships

THOMAS JEFFERS, a Yale Ph.D., teaches literature at Marquette University, USA, and earlier taught at Cornell and Harvard, where he was a Mellon Fellow. He is author of Samuel Butler Revalued (1981) and Editor of The Norman Podhoretz Reader (2004). He has published essays in the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Raritan, and Commentary, and is now working on the authorized biography of Norman Podhoretz.

Prologue The Idea of Bildung and the Bildungsroman Goethe's Classical Bildungsroman: Mastering the Art of Living David Copperfield's Self-Cultivation Maisie's Moral Development: Finding Out for Herself Forster's The Longest Journey: Against "the code of modern morals" Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: "We children were the in-between" The Philosophical Apprenticeship of Oliver Alden Epilogue