In the bouquet of novel typologies—the picaresque, the Künstlerroman, the Zeitroman, the novel of ideas, magical realism, hysterical realism, “experimental” anything—the bildungsroman is the least ...

Jessica Burstein
Jessica Burstein is an Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art, and has published in various academic journals as well as a forthcoming issue of Raritan. She is on the editorial boards of Modernism/Modernity, The Journal of Modern Literature, and Modern Language Quarterly; and is working on a book called House Dress Skin.