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“Phillips is a scrupulous, imaginative reader, and her book re-orients the study of modernism in the United States in persuasive and interesting ways. The handling of canonical texts—Turn of the Screw, Nightwood—is sharp, and Phillips brings into play lesser-known texts by Stein, Dubois, and others. The book is also a particularly sophisticated addition to the scholarship that bridges queer critique and representations of the child.” (Peter Stoneley, Professor of English, University of Reading, UK and author of “Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature” and “A Queer History of the Ballet”)
“Phillips’s provocative study opens up new ways of thinking about American modernism, offering a truly innovative reading of this crucial moment in literary history. Arguing that modernists resisted the traditional iteration of childhood as insulated, inspirational, and sentimental, Phillips focuses critical attention instead on the modernist interrogation of the failures and limitations of childhood innocence. Recognizing childhood’s central position within the most experimental literary movement of the twentieth century, Phillips offers her readers a deeply researched, beautifully written, profoundly convincing reinvention of what we thought we knew about modernism’s attitude towards youth.” (Katharine Capshaw, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut, USA)
“A nuanced and illuminating account of a neglected topic. Phillips’s book enriches our understanding of American literary history by weaving together insightful analysis of texts for and about children by major modernist authors whose engagement with children’s literature and childhood has not been fully acknowledged.” (Marah Gubar, Associate Professor of Literature, MIT, USA)
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About the author
Mason Phillips is a Lecturer in the English Department at Howard University, USA. He works in the fields of modernism, African American literature, and childhood studies and has published in numerous journals including African American Review, Children’s Literature, and PMLA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representations of Childhood in American Modernism
Authors: Mason Phillips
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50807-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70141-4Published: 01 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50807-2Published: 31 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 234
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, US History, Social History