The Forms of Youth : : Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence / / Stephanie Burt.
Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art...
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