Table of Contents

Introduction.- American Modernism, Childhood, and The Inward Turn.- The “Partagé Child” And The Emergence of The Modernist Novel in What Maisie Knew.- An Innocence Worse Than Evil in The Turn of The Screw.- Nightwood: A Bedtime Story.- The Children of Double Consciousness: From The Souls of Black Folk to The Brownies’ Book.- Drowning In Childhood: Gertrude Stein’s Late Modernism.- Works Cited

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.