Educational novel

The educational novel is a subsidiary form of the development and educational novel . In it, a draft for the education of a person is described as an example. The emphasis is therefore on the description of the pedagogical influences and effects on the person described.

The educational novels include:

• Education of Cyrus ( Kyrou paideia ), Xenophon (completed after 366 BC)
• The Young Boy Mirror , Jörg Wickram (1554)
• Les Aventures de Télémaque , François Fénelon (1699)
• Pamela , Samuel Richardson (1740)
• The Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabella , Charlotte Lennox (1752)
• Émile or on education , Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
• Lienhard and Gertrud , Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1780ff)
• Uli the servant and Uli the tenant , Jeremias Gotthelf (1841 and 1849)
• The green Heinrich , Gottfried Keller (1854/55, second version 1879/80)
• The Narrow Path to Happiness , Paul Ernst (1904)

literature

• Oskar Benda : The art form of the educational novel . In: 42nd annual report of the German state secondary school in Trieste . Trieste 1912, p. 2-51 .
• Otto F. Best: Handbook of literary technical terms . Frankfurt am Main 2004.