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

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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