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Author:   Sandra Dinter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367361938

ISBN 10:   0367361930
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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