Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. RUSSELL PERKIN
Keyword(s):  
British Novel

The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Richard
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
British Novel

: Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel . Lisa L. Moore.

1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-393
Author(s):  
Jody Greene
Keyword(s):  
British Novel ◽  
History Of

Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel by Nicole Mansfield Wright

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
Anne Frey
Keyword(s):  
British Novel

Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (review)

2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-661
Author(s):  
Lynne Vallone
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Novel

Roaring Beasts and Raging Floods: The Representation of Political Crowds in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

1994 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Visser
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Novel

Iconographies of ‘Childness’ and the Contemporary British Novel: Book Covers, Discourses, and Cultural Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (4) ◽  
pp. 710-738
Author(s):  
Ralf Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
British Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Constructions Of Childhood ◽  
The Many ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract A sizeable segment of the contemporary British fiction market for adult readers consists of novels that focus on children and childhood. In accordance with interdisciplinary Childhood Studies, such texts can be understood as contributions to the social construction of children and childhood, or ‘childness’. Such constructions appear to be in particular demand in this phase of late modernity, when childhood is conceptualized as an antidote to the many uncertainties contemporary post-industrial societies are faced with. While on the level of societies, public constructions of childhood are best understood in terms of a Foucauldian notion of discourse, discourses are not what individual readers and book-buyers actually have in their minds when choosing a title. Rather, this article argues that the cover illustrations of these novels both activate and reinforce cultural models of ‘childness’ that readers have stored as schemata shared with their cultural community. On the basis of this alignment of discourse theory with a concept from cognitive anthropology, the article demonstrates that book covers play a role in maintaining particular conceptions of ‘childness’, and in feeding them back into the minds of the readers. Furthermore, the relevance of the book as a material artefact is once again acknowledged.1

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