{"product_id":"the-forms-of-youth-9780231141420","title":"The Forms of Youth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemonstrates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 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","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400228872535,"sku":"9780231141420","price":49.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-forms-of-youth-9780231141420","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}