03333nam 22005775 450 991014875720332120200630074031.01-137-50807-810.1057/978-1-137-50807-2(CKB)3710000000922023(DE-He213)978-1-137-50807-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4731236(EXLCZ)99371000000092202320161031d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRepresentations of Childhood in American Modernism /by Michelle H. Phillips1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (IX, 234 p. 10 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 1-137-50806-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- American Modernism, Childhood, and The Inward Turn -- The “Partagé Child” And The Emergence of The Modernist Novel in What Maisie Knew -- An Innocence Worse Than Evil in The Turn of The Screw -- Nightwood: A Bedtime Story -- The Children of Double Consciousness: From The Souls of Black Folk to The Brownies’ Book -- Drowning In Childhood: Gertrude Stein’s Late Modernism -- Works Cited .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, Michelle H. 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.America—LiteraturesLiterature, Modern—20th centuryUnited States—HistorySocial historyNorth American Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000US Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718010Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000United StatesHistoryAmericaLiteraturesAmerica—Literatures.Literature, Modern—20th century.United States—History.Social history.North American Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.US History.Social History.809.7Phillips Michelle Hauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1065322BOOK9910148757203321Representations of Childhood in American Modernism2544669UNINA