Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Modernist Poetics of Adolescence 19
5. 2. From Schools to Subcultures: Adolescence in Modern British Poetry 44
6. 3. Soldiers, Babysitters, Delinquents, and Mutants: Adolescence in Midcentury American Poetry 83
7. 4. Are You One of Those Girls? Feminist Poetics of Adolescence 133
8. 5. An Excess of Dreamy Possibilities: Ireland and Australia 159
9. 6. Midair: Adolescence in Contemporary American Poetry 186
10. Notes 215
11. Works Cited 229
12. Acknowledgments 247
13. Index 249