Representations of Childhood in American Modernism
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| Verlag | Springer Palgrave Macmillan |
| Auflage | 2019 |
| Seiten | 234 |
| Format | 14,8 x 1,3 x 21,0 cm |
| Previously published in hardcover | |
| Gewicht | 321 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1349701416 |
| EAN | 9781349701414 |
| Bestell-Nr | 34970141UA |
This book documents American modernism's efforts to disenchant adult and child readers alike of the essentialist view of childhood as redemptive, originary, and universal. For James, Barnes, Du Bois, and Stein, the twentieth century's move to position the child at the center of the self and society raised concerns about the shrinking value of maturity and prompted a critical response that imagined childhood and children's narratives in ways virtually antagonistic to both. In this original study, Mason Phillips argues that American modernism's widespread critique of childhood led to some of the period's most meaningful and most misunderstood experiments with interiority, narration, and children's literature.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE:
American Modernism, Childhood, and The Inward Turn
CHAPTER TWO:
The "Partagé Child" and The Emergence of The Modernist Novel in Henry James's What Maisie Knew
CHAPTER THREE:
An Innocence Worse Than Evil in The Turn of The Screw
CHAPTER FOUR:
Nightwood: A Bedtime Story
CHAPTER FIVE:
The Children of Double Consciousness: From The Souls of Black Folk to The Brownies' Book
CHAPTER SIX:
Drowning In Childhood: Gertrude Stein's Late Modernism
Works Cited