"Blighted beginnings"
Subtitle: coming of age in independent Ireland
By: Jonathan Bolton
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780838757734
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming of age in the Irish free state: individual and national development; title: "Big house bildung": Anglo-Irish coming-of-age narratives; title: "Omnibus omnium": education, vocation, and surrogacy in Irish coming-of-age narratives; title: "The smear of decency": courtship and sexual initiation in coming-of-age narratives; title: "A land transformed by wonder": coming out in Ireland; title: Unhappy families: domestic discord, the divorce debate, and Irish coming-of-age narratives; title: Conclusion : toward a postmodern Irish Bildungsroman : Roddy Doyle's A star called Henry.