Sandra Dinter is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuermberg in Germany. Her specialisms include contemporary British fiction, constructions of childhood, neo-Victorian studies and representations of space and mobility in nineteenth-century literature. Sandra is co-editor of Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society (Routledge, 2017). Her work has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Neo-Victorian Studies and Anglia: Journal of English Philology.

• Acknowledgements1 The Rise of the Contemporary Childhood Novel: Introduction2 Dismantling Constructivisms of Childhood3 Constructions of Childhood in Late Modern England, 1980s–2010s4 Approaching Childhood as a Construct: Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time (1987)5 Radical Constructivism in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988)6 The Constructed Child as a Counter Model: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992)7 Performing Childhood in Nick Hornby’s About a Boy (1998)8 Historiographical Reflections on Childhood in Sarah Moss’s Night Waking (2011)9 The Limits of Constructivism in Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (2011)10 EpilogueBibliographyAppendix: A Chronology of Anglophone Childhood Novels since 1979

Sandra Dinter is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuermberg in Germany. Her specialisms include contemporary British fiction, constructions of childhood, neo-Victorian studies and representations of space and mobility in nineteenth-century literature. Sandra is co-editor of Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society (Routledge, 2017). Her work has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Neo-Victorian Studies and Anglia: Journal of English Philology.

• Acknowledgements1 The Rise of the Contemporary Childhood Novel: Introduction2 Dismantling Constructivisms of Childhood3 Constructions of Childhood in Late Modern England, 1980s–2010s4 Approaching Childhood as a Construct: Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time (1987)5 Radical Constructivism in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988)6 The Constructed Child as a Counter Model: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992)7 Performing Childhood in Nick Hornby’s About a Boy (1998)8 Historiographical Reflections on Childhood in Sarah Moss’s Night Waking (2011)9 The Limits of Constructivism in Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (2011)10 EpilogueBibliographyAppendix: A Chronology of Anglophone Childhood Novels since 1979

Sandra Dinter is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuermberg in Germany. Her specialisms include contemporary British fiction, constructions of childhood, neo-Victorian studies and representations of space and mobility in nineteenth-century literature. Sandra is co-editor of Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society (Routledge, 2017). Her work has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Neo-Victorian Studies and Anglia: Journal of English Philology.

• Acknowledgements1 The Rise of the Contemporary Childhood Novel: Introduction2 Dismantling Constructivisms of Childhood3 Constructions of Childhood in Late Modern England, 1980s–2010s4 Approaching Childhood as a Construct: Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time (1987)5 Radical Constructivism in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988)6 The Constructed Child as a Counter Model: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992)7 Performing Childhood in Nick Hornby’s About a Boy (1998)8 Historiographical Reflections on Childhood in Sarah Moss’s Night Waking (2011)9 The Limits of Constructivism in Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (2011)10 EpilogueBibliographyAppendix: A Chronology of Anglophone Childhood Novels since 1979