Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society

✍ Scribed by Sandra Dinter and Ralf Schneider

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Approaching Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Introduction
SECTION I: Childhood in Contemporary British Literature and Literary Criticism
1 Writing Plural Childhoods – Some Thoughts Concerning the Recent Carnegie Medal Shortlists
2 The Adult within the Literary Child: Reading Toby Litt’s: deadkidsongs as an Anti-Bildungsroman
3 The Child Narrator in Contemporary British Fiction and Literary Criticism: The Case of Stephen Kelman’s: Pigeon English
4 Children’s Literature, Cognitivism and Neuroscience
SECTION II: Medial and Visual Constructions of Childhood in Contemporary Britain
5 Children’s Television and Public Service in Contemporary Britain
6 An Inconvenient Growth: Watching Child Actors, Growing Up, Sideways and Backwards in Contemporary British Film and Television
7 Adults Looking at Children: Books, Bodies and Buying in Children’s Book Covers
8 Reflections on British and American Images of and for Children
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
10 Contingent Connections: Between German and British Childhoods – Marion Daltrop
SECTION IV: Contemporary British Childhoods between Rights and Regulations
11 The Politics of Child Protection in Contemporary England: Towards the ‘Authoritarian Neoliberal State’
12 Dressing up for School: Beyond Rights and Welfare
13 The Recognition and Distribution of Children’s Agency in the UK
Index