SANDRA DINTER
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (MAY 2017)
Monographs
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Childhood in Contemporary English Fiction: Contesting the Last Vestige of Essentialism.
[publication in preparation]
Edited Volumes
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edited with Ralf Schneider. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain:
Literature, Media and Society. [forthcoming in the Routledge series Studies in Childhood, 1700
to the Present in 2017]
Journal Articles
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“The Mad Child in the Attic: John Harding’s Florence & Giles as a Neo-Victorian
Reworking of The Turn of the Screw.” The Child in Victorian Art and Discourse: Renegotiating
19th-Century Concepts of Childhood. Spec. issue of Neo-Victorian Studies 5.1 (2012): 60–88.
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“Plato’s Cave Revisited: Epistemology, Perception and Romantic Childhood in Emma
Donoghue’s Room (2010).” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings 2.1 (2013): 53–69.
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“Spatial Inscriptions of Childhood: Transformations of the Victorian Garden in Frances
Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911), Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)
and Sarah Singleton’s The Poison Garden (2009).” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
40.3 (2015): 217-37.
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with Stefanie John. “Legacies of the Romantic Child: Teaching Post-Romantic
Constructions of Childhood in Contemporary British Fiction.” Teaching Romanticism with
the Contemporary. Spec. issue of The Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons (2017).
https://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/contemporary.
Book Chapters
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“‘A Voodoo Doll in Diapers’: Deconstructing the Cruel Child in Lionel Shriver’s We Need
to Talk about Kevin (2003).” Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures. Eds. Monica Flegel
and Christopher Parkes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. [forthcoming]
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“The Child Narrator in Contemporary British Fiction and Literary Criticism: The Case of
Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English.” Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary
Britain: Literature, Media and Society. [forthcoming in the Routledge series Studies in
Childhood, 1700 to the Present in 2017]
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with Ralf Schneider. “Approaching Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Introduction.”
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society.
[forthcoming in the Routledge series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present in 2017]
Miscellaneous
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with Ralf Schneider. Conference Report “Transformations of Childhood in
Contemporary Britain.” Mitteilungen des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Forschung 1/2015: 5355.