Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain

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.

• Table of Contents Table of Contents Approaching Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Introduction Sandra Dinter and Ralf SchneiderSection I: Childhood in Contemporary British Literature and Literary Criticism1 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-BildungsromanKatharina Pietsch and Tyll Zybura3 The Child Narrator in Contemporary British Fiction and Literary Criticism: The Case of Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English Sandra Dinter4 Children’s Literature, Cognitivism and NeuroscienceKarín Lesnik-ObersteinSection II: Medial and Visual Constructions of Childhood in Contemporary Britain5 Children’s Television and Public Service in Contemporary BritainJonathan 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 CoversJessica Medhurst8 Reflections on British and American Images of and for ChildrenEllen Handler SpitzSection III: Historical and Social Dimensions of Childhood in Contemporary Britain9 Childcare for the Under-Fives in Post-1945 England: Contemporary Reflections on Past Childhoods Angela Davis10 Contingent Connections: Between German and British Childhoods – Marion DaltropErica Burman Section IV: Contemporary British Childhoods between Rights and Regulations 11 The Politics of Child Protection in Contemporary England: Towards the ‘Authoritarian Neoliberal State’Nigel Parton 12 Dressing up for School: Beyond Rights and WelfareDaniel Monk 13 The Recognition and Distribution of Children’s Agency in the UKMichael Wyness