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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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Modernist Poetics of Adolescence
- 2. From Schools to Subcultures: Adolescence in Modern British Poetry
- 3. Soldiers, Babysitters, Delinquents, and Mutants: Adolescence in Midcentury American Poetry
- 4. Are You One of Those Girls? Feminist Poetics of Adolescence
- 5. An Excess of Dreamy Possibilities: Ireland and Australia
- 6. Midair: Adolescence in Contemporary American Poetry
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index