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Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel (Paperback)
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Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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Since 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.
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