This book examines the ideological affinity that can be established between the classical Bildungsroman and colonialist ideology on the basis of a literary analysis of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahreconsidered by most critics to be the origin of the genreand Great Expectationsone of the paradigmatic examples of the development of the Bildungsroman in English literature This ideological affinity is understood as an example of what the Palestinian criti...