Representations of childhood in american modernism [electronic resource].
2016
PN843-PN846
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Title
Representations of childhood in american modernism [electronic resource].
Author
Phillips, Michelle H.
Edition
1st ed. 2016.
ISBN
9781137508072 (electronic book)
1137508078 (electronic book)
113750806X
9781137508065
1137508078 (electronic book)
113750806X
9781137508065
Publication Details
[S.l.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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PN843-PN846
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9112
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, 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.
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