Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.American Modernism, Childhood, and the Inward Turn -- 3.The "Partage Child" and the Emergence of the Modernist Novel in Henry James's What Maisie Knew -- 4.An Innocence Worse than Evil in The Turn of the Screw -- 5.Nightwood: A Bedtime Story -- 6.The Children of Double Consciousness: From The Souls of Black Folk to The Brownies' Book -- 7.Drowning in Childhood: Gertrude Stein's Late Modernism.