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Book SynopsisDemonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. This book recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity.
Trade Review[A] compelling study. -- Richard Flynn H-Youth [A] wide-ranging, illuminating study... Recommended. Choice A remarkable achievement of of analytical and evaluative literary history that will suspend the expectations and ultimately redirect the attention of those who read it. -- Matthew Hofer Contemporary Literature
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
