Unbecoming Women British Women Writers and the Novel of Development

In these elegant rereadings of female novels of development, Susan Fraiman redefines the gendering of the Bildungsroman. By examining competing class narratives, contradictory Romance ideologies, and hidden homosocial subplots in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century women's fiction, Fraiman violates the Bildungsroman's staid generic boundaries and delineates new anatomies of struggle and sorrow in British women's fiction.Fraiman, Susan is the author of 'Unbecoming Women British Women Writers and the Novel of Development', published 1994 under ISBN 9780231080019 and ISBN 0231080018.