Titlebook: Representations of Childhood in American Modernism; Mason Phillips Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 American

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tive, 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

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Introduction,stories of childhood and children’s literature have routinely skipped modernism. Yet modernism’s concerns about idyllic childhood were insightful and prophetic, and they were likewise crucial in the development of modernism itself.

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,The “, Child” and the Emergence of the Modernist Novel in Henry James’s ,is most remarkable for the way that it changes course. In the end, Maisie’s strategies of coping—silence, secrecy, and diversion—also come to characterize the narrative technique of a novel that never, at last, reveals what Maisie knew.

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An Innocence Worse than Evil in ,ts are real, they are not the cause of the illness and death in the novel. Rather, it is the governess’s relentless pursuit and policing of the children’s innocence that results in the undoing of Flora, Miles, and the governess herself.

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The Children of Double Consciousness: From , to ,olence in these writings represent a revised effort to guide the black child’s entry into double consciousness and to repurpose it as a model for a resilient black subjectivity beginning in childhood.