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100	1		_aDinter, Sandra, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aChildhood in the contemporary English novel / _cSandra Dinter.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 222 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aStudies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
505	0		_aAcknowledgements 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.
520			_aSince 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. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, P. D. James, Nick Hornby, Sarah Moss and Stephen Kelman and situating them in their cultural and political contexts, Sandra Dinter uncovers both the reasons for the current popularity of such fiction and the theoretical shift that distinguishes it from earlier literary epochs. The book's central argument is that the contemporary English novel draws on the constructivist paradigm shift that revolutionised the academic study of childhood several decades ago. Contemporary works of fiction, Dinter argues, depart from the notion of childhood as a naturally given phase of life and examine the agents, interests and conflicts involved in its cultural production. Dinter also considers the limits of this new theoretical impetus, observing that authors and scholars alike, even when they claim to conceive of childhood as a construct, do not always give up on the idea of its 'natural' core. Accordingly, this book reconstructs how the English novel between the 1980s and the 2010s oscillates between an acknowledgment of constructivism and an endorsement of childhood as the last irrevocable quintessence of humanity. In doing so, it successfully extends the literary and cultural history of childhood to the immediate present.
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650		0	_aChildren in literature.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_3Taylor & Francis _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429344497
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