Representations of childhood in American modernism /

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 ra...

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Main Author:	Phillips, Michelle H. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019].
Subjects:	Children in literature. Literature. United States > History. Literature, Modern > 20th century. America > Literatures. Literature, Modern.