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Representations of childhood in American modernism /

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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. American Modernism, Childhood, and the Inward Turn
  • 3. "Partage Child" and the Emergence of the Modernist Novel in Henry James's What Maisie Knew
  • 4. Innocence Worse than Evil in The Turn of the Screw
  • 5. Nightwood: A Bedtime Story
  • 6. Children of Double Consciousness: From The Souls of Black Folk to The Brownies' Book
  • 7. Drowning in Childhood: Gertrude Stein's Late Modernism.