On "Coming of Age" / Kent Baxter -- Critical contexts : Critical reception / Kent Baxter ; In search of Mildred Taylor's womanists: feminist agency in the Logan family novels / Rachelle D. Washington and Michelle H. Martin ; Coming of age in history / Steven Mintz ; "Not now ... not yet": developmental difficulties in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea" / Beth A. Wightman -- Critical readings : Coming of age in Homer's Ithaca / William G. Thalmann ; Coming of age in Shakespeare / Heather James ; A romantic poet comes of age over and over again / Richard Matlak ; The varieties of adolescent experience: coming of age in Alcott's Little women / Anne K. Phillips and Greg Eiselein ; Irony and moral development in adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Roberta Seelinger Trites ; Stephen Dedalus and the other: interiority, language, and gender in A portrait of the artist as a Young man / Vincent J. Cheng ; "Missing everybody": language and identity in The catcher in the rye / Annette Wannamaker ; Coming of age in Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jane Hedley ; Ready or not: Antonio Marez y Luna is thrown into the world of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me Ultima / Phillip Serrato ; Song for a murdered cousin: violence in The woman warrior / Tomo Hattori ; School stories: education, coming of age, and the American Indian literary tradition / Amelia V. Katanski.