Editing Bildungsroman (section)

===18th century===
* ''[[Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure]]'' (''Fanny Hill'') by [[John Cleland]] (1748)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hanlon|first=Aaron|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742609|title=Fanny Hill and the Legibility of Consent|journal=ELH|year=2019|volume=86|issue=4|pages=941–966|doi=10.1353/elh.2019.0035|s2cid=213479222|access-date=11 December 2020|archive-date=23 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123150731/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742609|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=McCracken|first=David|title=A Burkean Analysis of the Sublimity and the Beauty of the Phallus in John Cleland's Fanny Hill |journal=ANQ |year= 2016 |volume=29|issue=3|pages=138–141 |doi=10.1080/0895769X.2016.1216388|s2cid=164429385}}</ref>
* ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' by [[Henry Fielding]] (1749)<ref name="McWilliams2009p14"/>
* ''[[Candide]]'' by [[Voltaire]] (1759)<ref>{{cite book |last=Feder |first=Helena |title=Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman |year=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781315578644|page=30 |quote=Candide exhibits several of the traits of the "traditional" or Germanic Bildungsroman, particularly the depiction of the development of an individual through travel. As a catalogue of the horrors of the modern world, Candide — perhaps more than any of the other texts examined in this book—lives up to Moretti's articulation of the Bildungsroman as the "'symbolic form' of modernity" (5). Read from an ecocultural perspective, this philosophical Bildungsroman suggests the limitations of Dialectic 's conceptions of the Enlightenment and the subject with a model, albeit a modest one, for interaction with the world outside of rationalism's logic of domination.}}</ref>
* ''[[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' by [[Laurence Sterne]] (1759)<ref name="McWilliams2009p14">{{cite book |last=McWilliams |first=Ellen |title=Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2GuhQCODeMC&pg=PA14 |year=2009 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |isbn=978-0-7546-6027-9 |page=14 |quote=The two early English ''Bildungsromane'' already mentioned, ''Tom Jones'' and ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy'', are examples of coming-of-age narratives that predate the generic expectations of the German tradition.}}</ref>
* {{Lang|de|Geschichte des Agathon}} by [[Christoph Martin Wieland]] (1767)—often considered the first "true" bildungsroman<ref name="Swales, Martin 1978"/>
* ''[[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]]'' by [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]] (1795–96)<ref name="Robison">{{Cite web |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4087-wrong-move-utter-detachment-utter-truth |title=Wrong Move: Utter Detachment, Utter Truth |last=Robison, James |author-link=James Robison (author) |date=1 June 2016 |access-date=9 June 2016 |work=[[The Criterion Collection]] |archive-date=24 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624150753/https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4087-wrong-move-utter-detachment-utter-truth |url-status=live }}</ref>