Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit
Author:   Dominic Dean
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 October 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dominic Dean
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438499550


ISBN 10:   1438499558
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Creative Destruction: Brexit and Britain's Future Past 2. Thatcher's Demons and Maggie's Boys: Children and Youth in Thatcherism's Hinterlands 3. Boy Kings, Queerness, and Radical Nostalgia 4. Abduction and Abuse: Disappearing Children in the 1980s and 1990s 5. Children of Nowhere: Migration and Haunted Futures in Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills 6. Migrant Children and Mobile Youth in Twenty-First Century British Fiction Conclusions and Speculations: Reading the Child-as-Future in the Twenty-First Century Notes Works Cited Index

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"""An authoritative, acute, and insightful book on a highly distressing and important topic. Dean sets cultural representations of child killers and abusers into a wider social and political context and makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times."" — Robert Eaglestone, author of Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle ""Dean charts a fascinating history of the end of neoliberalism told through the figure of the child. Refusing the essentializing terms in which ideas about children are often posed, Dean instead argues that the child might be pressed to service in any one of several different kinds of political and ideological projects. Their very intransigence and opacity compel and resist adult knowledge and direction, ultimately posing a problem for all political projects that rely on them."" — Rebekah Sheldon, author of The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe"


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Dominic Dean is Course Tutor and Senior Research Quality and Impact Manager at the University of Sussex.

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