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Author:   Sandra Dinter (Bielefeld University, Germany) ,  Ralf Schneider (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.371kg
ISBN:  

9780367884857

ISBN 10:   0367884852
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents Table of Contents Approaching Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Introduction Sandra Dinter and Ralf Schneider Section I: Childhood in Contemporary British Literature and Literary Criticism 1 Writing Plural Childhoods – Some Thoughts Concerning the Recent Carnegie Medal Shortlists Anja Müller 2 The Adult Within the Literary Child: Reading Toby Litt’s deadkidsongs as an Anti-Bildungsroman Katharina Pietsch and Tyll Zybura 3 The Child Narrator in Contemporary British Fiction and Literary Criticism: The Case of Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English Sandra Dinter 4 Children’s Literature, Cognitivism and Neuroscience Karín Lesnik-Oberstein Section II: Medial and Visual Constructions of Childhood in Contemporary Britain 5 Children’s Television and Public Service in Contemporary Britain Jonathan Bignell 6 An Inconvenient Growth: Watching Child Actors, Growing Up, Sideways and Backwards in Contemporary British Film and Television Karen Lury 7 Adults Looking at Children: Books, Bodies and Buying in Children’s Book Covers Jessica Medhurst 8 Reflections on British and American Images of and for Children Ellen Handler Spitz Section III: Historical and Social Dimensions of Childhood in Contemporary Britain 9 Childcare for the Under-Fives in Post-1945 England: Contemporary Reflections on Past Childhoods Angela Davis 10 Contingent Connections: Between German and British Childhoods – Marion Daltrop Erica Burman Section IV: Contemporary British Childhoods between Rights and Regulations 11 The Politics of Child Protectio

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Sandra Dinter is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in British Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Ralf Schneider is Professor of British Literature and Culture at Bielefeld University, Germany.

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