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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019].
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781349701414 1349701416 |