Coming of age
Here are entered works on the transition of young people from childhood to adulthood.
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Broader term:Narrower term:Used for:- Age, Coming of
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A Safe Girl to Love (New York: Topside Press, c2014), by Casey Plett (PDF at Wayback Machine)- Emily's Quest (1927), by L. M. Montgomery
- Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2012), by Tobias Boes
- Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Marc Redfield (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Empire Girls: The Colonial Heroine Comes of Age (c2014), by Mandy Treagus (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012), by Laura Morgan Green (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Fiction of Humanity: Studies in the Bildungsroman from Wieland to Thomas Mann, by Michael Beddow (HTML at mbeddow.net)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Life cycle, Human -- Early works to 1800- Aristotle on Youth and Old Age, Life and Death and Respiration (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897), by Aristotle, trans. by William Ogle
- On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing, by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. T. Ross (HTML at Internet Classics)
- How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (2004), ed. by Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler (PDF files at Wisconsin)
- Hear Him Roar (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Andrew Wingfield
- The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary (New York: John Lane Company, 1911), by Karin Michaëlis, contrib. by Marcel Prévost
- The Professor's House (1925), by Willa Cather (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
- For That I Came: Virtues and Ideals of Jesuit Education (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1997), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
- Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), by Edward Le Roy Long (PDF at Georgetown)
- Georgetown at Two Hundred: Faculty Reflections on The University's Future (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990), ed. by William C. McFadden (PDF at Georgetown)
- Jesuit Education and the Cultivation of Virtue (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1990), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
- Why Children Matter (c2014), by Johann Christoph Arnold (HTML with commentary at plough.com)
- Business and Diversion Inoffensive to God, and Necessary for the Comfort and Support of Human Society: A Discourse Utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls in the Fishing-Season, 1739, by Joseph Seccombe (page images with commentary at UNH)
- The Nature and Tendency of Balls, by Jacob Ide (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Social Dancing Inconsistent with a Christian Profession and Baptismal Vows, by B. M. Palmer (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Nature and Tendency of Balls, by Jacob Ide (HTML and page images at LOC)
- An Appeal to All Christians, Especially the Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Against the Practice of Social Dancing, by John G. Jones (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Dancing As a Christian Amusement, by George C. Heckman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A Discourse on Dancing, Delivered in the Central Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, by N. L. Rice (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Familiar Dialogues on Dancing, Between a Minister and a Dancer, by John Phillips (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Immorality of Modern Dances, ed. by Beryl and Associates (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Modern Dance and What Shall Take Its Place, by Melvin C. Drumm (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Modern Dancing, In the Light of Scripture and Facts, by William W. Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons: The Catechism of the New Age (revised second edition; Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1988), by Peter J. Leithart and George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
- Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), ed. by Jack Wertheimer (PDF at Brandeis)
- Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1869), by J. T. Crane (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
- Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1870), by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
- Tired Church Members, by Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)
- Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Kimerer L. LaMothe (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- An Account of the Trial of Social Dance, by George Davis (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Dancers and Dancing: A Calm and Rational View of the Dancing Question, by J. M. Hubbert (HTML and page images at LOC)
- From the Ball-Room to Hell (Chicago: The Henry Publishing Co., c1892), by Thomas A. Faulkner
- From the Ball-Room to Hell (c1894), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
- From the Ball-Room to Hell (illustrated edition; ca. 1920), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- May Christians Dance?, by James H. Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Modern Dances, by Luigi Sartori (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Why Children Matter (c2014), by Johann Christoph Arnold (HTML with commentary at plough.com)
- Our Children in the Other Life, by Chauncey Giles (HTML at Swedenborg Digital Library)
- The American Child (1913), by Elizabeth McCracken (Gutenberg text)
- The American Child (Boston and New York: Houghton Miffin Co., 1913), by Elizabeth McCracken, illust. by Alice Austin
- Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text)
- Little Folks of Many Lands (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1904), by Lulu Maude Chance
- Children and Gardens (London: Offices of "Country life", Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Gertrude Jekyll
- Your Child Today and Tomorrow (second edition, 1920), by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (Gutenberg text)
- The Day Before Yesterday (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913), by Richard Middleton
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