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Representations of Childhood in American Modernism by Michelle H. Phillips (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Representations of Childhood in American Modernism about?

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.

Who reads Representations of Childhood in American Modernism?

Author

Michelle H. Phillips (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137508065

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism