Growing Sideways in Twenty-First Century British Culture: Challenging Boundaries Between Childhood and Adulthood

by Anne Malewski

This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century where these age boundaries are widely debated, policed, and contested to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on observations, especially in children's literature criticism, that human growth is shaped by a grand narrative that privileges adulthood, and on terminologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902721008X
• ISBN13: 9789027210081
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 229 Pages