Revolutionary Subjects

Benjamin Kohlmann is Professor of English at the University of Regensburg (Germany), working on the relationship between literature and politics. He is the author of Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature and British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States. He co-founded and co-edits the book series Literature & Politics at Oxford University Press.

• Introduction: World Literature and the Work of Revolution1. The Left Bildungsroman's Early History: Genre at Modernity's Periphery2. Educating the Educator: The Radical Bildungsroman and the Problem of Second Bildung3. "Knowledge in Struggle": Collective Formation and Revolutionary Pedagogy4. No Home but the Struggle: The Left Bildungsroman and the Formlessness of HistoryCoda

Seen, for once, from a radically global perspective, as Kohlmann allows us to see it, the bildungsroman reveals a genuinely radical counter-tradition. A source of much-needed cultural sustenance in hard times.