Book launch for Killing Children in British Fiction
Tuesday 22 October 14:00 until 16:00
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Speaker: Dr Dominic Dean, Professor Pam Thurschwell, Professor Janet Boddy
Part of the series: Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth
About Killing Children in British Fiction:
Considering novels and films alongside actual murder cases and moral panics, this book develops this insight into a unique account of British fiction and cultural history from the Thatcher to Brexit eras, where the child provides a figure for understanding conflicts over the British future. Working within and often challenging existing scholarship in childhood studies, literary studies, and critical and queer theory, Killing Children explores how the child, at once materially present and representative of an unsecured future, provokes relentless fantasies, fears, and violence from adults. In doing so, it considers fiction from Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Sarah Waters, Doris Lessing, Jim Crace and many others alongside theory from Lee Edelman, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Jacqueline Rose, Rebekah Sheldon, and a broad range of scholarship across childhood studies, contemporary fiction, and recent British cultural and political history
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Last updated: Tuesday, 1 October 2024