Focusing on representations of childhood in American modernism, this new book tells an unpopular story of modernism's disaffection for 'the cult of childhood' prevalent in the early twentieth century. Discussing works by Henry James, Djuna Barnes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein and other key modernist writers, the book traces American modernism's efforts to disenchant adult and child readers alike of the 'edenic' notion of childhood: innocent, simple, good.weiterlesen