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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978-1-349-70141-4The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

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: A Bedtime Story,hildhood take on grotesque features in Barnes’s late modernist novel. The quote that leads the title of this chapter stands as a warning against the childlike impersonations of the novel’s central character Robin Vote. But the line and the character double, I argue, as a caution for modernism itself

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,Drowning in Childhood: Gertrude Stein’s Late Modernism,dark. They are preoccupied with representing and with killing children, with writing and with destroying the tropes of childhood. In Stein’s works for children, the alphabet book, first reader, and the fairy tale forms are satirically targeted, and the children in these stories die with regularity a

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: A Bedtime Story,fair with the new has been linked to youthful resistance, to experimentation, and to innovation, but in the late 1930s—on the cusp of the Second World War—Barnes suggests that it can also be viewed as a cooptation of innocence that is artificial, empty, and even heartless.