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Author Millard, Kenneth.

Title Coming of age in contemporary American fiction / Kenneth Millard.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 different American cultures (in terms of race, class and gender) as well as a range of contemporary coming-of-age novels.
Contents Russell Banks, Rule of the bone -- Brady Udall, The miracle life of Edgar Mint -- Geoffrey Wolff, The age of consent -- Gish Jen, Mona in the promised land -- Jeffrey Eugenides, The virgin suicides -- Rick Moody, Purple America -- Scott Bradfield, The history of luminous motion -- Mark Richard, Fishboy -- Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping -- Josephine Humphreys, Rich in love -- Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina -- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac nation.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Bildungsromans, American -- History and criticism.
Bildungsromans, American.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Millard, Kenneth. Coming of age in contemporary American fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 9780748621736 0748621733 (OCoLC)84996978
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