This text explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. It considers a variety of differe

This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of t

The final installment in Sam's epic trilogy about coming of age in the South.

This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary

The book discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine – the young white middle-class woman �