Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.