Sandra Dinter

Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000691719
• Artikelnr.: 57902466

Autorenporträt

Sandra Dinter is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuermberg in Germany. Her specialisms include contemporary British fiction, constructions of childhood, neo-Victorian studies and representations of space and mobility in nineteenth-century literature. Sandra is co-editor of Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society (Routledge, 2017). Her work has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Neo-Victorian Studies and Anglia: Journal of English Philology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 The Rise of the Contemporary Childhood Novel: Introduction
2 Dismantling Constructivisms of Childhood
3 Constructions of Childhood in Late Modern England, 1980s-2010s
4 Approaching Childhood as a Construct: Ian McEwan's The Child in Time
(1987)
5 Radical Constructivism in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988)
6 The Constructed Child as a Counter Model: P. D. James's The Children of
Men (1992)
7 Performing Childhood in Nick Hornby's About a Boy (1998)
8 Historiographical Reflections on Childhood in Sarah Moss's Night Waking
(2011)
9 The Limits of Constructivism in Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English (2011)
10 Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix: A Chronology of Anglophone Childhood Novels since 1979