Coming of age
By: editor, Kent Baxter
Series: Criticial insights
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ipswich, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781429837316; 9781429837798
Subjects: Coming of age; History and criticism; Bildungsromans; Teenagers in literature; Adolescence in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Critical contexts. The critical reception of coming-of-age literature / Kent Baxter; title: In search of Mildred Taylor's womanists: feminist agency in the Logan family novels / Rachelle D. Washington and Michelle H. Martin; title: Coming of age in history / Steven Mintz; title: "Not now- not yet": developmental difficulties in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea" / Beth A. Wightman; title: Critical readings. Coming of age in Homer's Ithaca / William G. Thalmann; title: Coming of age in Shakespeare / Heather James; title: A romantic poet comes of age over and over again / Richard Matlak; title: The varieties of adolescent experience: coming of age in Alcott's Little women / Anne K. Phillips and Greg Eiselein; title: Irony and moral development in adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Roberta Seelinger Trites; title: Stephen Dedalus and the other: interiority, language, and gender in A portrait of the artist as a Young man / Vincent J. Cheng; title: "Missing everybody": language and identity in The catcher in the rye / Annette Wannamaker; title: Coming of age in Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jane Hedley; title: Ready or not: Antonio Marez y Luna is thrown into the world of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me Ultima / Phillip Serrato; title: Song for a murdered cousin: violence in The woman warrior / Tomo Hattori; title: School stories: education, coming of age, and the American Indian literary tradition / Amelia V. Katanski.