Publications

Dr. Sandra Dinter

Monograph

Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel. Routledge, 2019. Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present.

[Reviewed in Anglia, Anglistik, C21: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics]

 

Edited Volumes

Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century British Literature, History and Culture, edited by Sandra Dinter and Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. [in preparation]

Nationalism and the Postcolonial, edited by Sandra Dinter and Johanna Marquardt, Brill/Rodopi, 2021. Cross/Cultures 214, ASNEL/GAPS Papers 24.

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society, edited by Sandra Dinter and Ralf Schneider, Routledge, 2017. Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“The Brontë Sisters on Foot: Walking as a Reconfiguration of the Brontë Myth in Sally Wainwright’s BBC Biopic To Walk Invisible.”  English Studies, vol. 101, no. 8, 2020, pp. 961-978.

“Re-Walking the Paths of Pride and Prejudice: Intersectional Perspectives on Pedestrian Mobility in Jo Baker’s Longbourn.” Anglia: Journal of English Philology, vol. 137, no. 1, 2019, pp. 105-25.

(with Stefanie John). “Legacies of the Romantic Child: Teaching Post-Romantic Constructions of Childhood in Contemporary British Fiction.” Teaching the Romantic with the Contemporary, edited by D.B. Ruderman and Rachel Feder, spec. issue of The Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, 2017.

“Spatial Inscriptions of Childhood: Transformations of the Victorian Garden in The Secret Garden, Tom’s Midnight Garden, and The Poison Garden.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 3, 2015, pp. 217-37.

“Plato’s Cave Revisited: Epistemology, Perception and Romantic Childhood in Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010).” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 53–69.

“The Mad Child in the Attic: John Harding’s Florence & Giles as a Neo-Victorian Reworking of The Turn of the Screw.” Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012, pp. 60–88.

 

Book Chapters

“Where Vulnerability Resides: Representations of the Council Estate in Contemporary British Literature After Grenfell.” Contemporary Vulnerabilities, edited by Pier Paolo Piciucco, 2022/2023. [in progress]

“Claiming the Flâneur’s Body: Cross-Dressing Women and the Pleasures of Passing and Not Passing as a Man on the Street.” New Men’s Studies Revisited: Performing and Refashioning the Male Body, edited by Carmen Dexl and Silvia Gerlsbeck, Palgrave Macmillan. [forthcoming]

“Nationalism and the Postcolonial: An Introduction.” Nationalism and the Postcolonial, edited by Sandra Dinter und Johanna Marquardt, Brill/Rodopi, 2021, pp. 1-20. Cross/Cultures 214, ASNEL/GAPS Papers 24.

“The Spatiality of Crisis: Hotels in Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers and On Chesil Beach.” Reading Ian McEwan’s Mature Fiction: New Critical Approaches, edited by Armelle Parey und Isabelle Robin, Presses Universitaires de Nancy – Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 2020, pp. 49-64.

“Child Bodies in the British Novel of the 1980s.” Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture, edited by Sara Strauss and Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, Winter, 2020, pp.  69-88. Anglistik & Englischunterricht.

“‘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, edited by Monica Flegel and Christopher Parkes, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 217-236.

(with Ralf Schneider). “Approaching Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Introduction.” Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society, edited by Sandra Dinter and Ralf Schneider, Routledge, 2017, pp. 1-16.

“The Child Narrator in Contemporary British Fiction and Literary Criticism: The Case of Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (2011).” Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society, edited by Sandra Dinter and Ralf Schneider, Routledge, 2017, pp. 50-66.

 

Reference Works

“John Burnside.” Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, edited by Sebastian Domsch et al., edition text + kritik, 2018. 106. Nachlieferung.

“Ali Smith.” Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, edited by Sebastian Domsch et al, edition text + kritik, 2018. 105. Nachlieferung.

 

Reviews

Review of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews, Reaktion Books, 2020.  Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 159-161.

Review of Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene by Shawna Ross, SUNY Press, 2020. English Studies, vol. 102, no. 3, 2021, pp. 385-387.

Review of The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century by Marion Gymnich et al., Cambridge Scholars, 2018. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2020, pp. 173-174.

Review of Understanding Brexit: A Concise Introduction by Tim Oliver, Policy Press, 2018, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 26, no 1, 2019, pp.104-106.

Review of Women by the Waterfront: Modernist (Re)Visions of Gender, Self and Littoral Space by Kathrin Tordasi, Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. Anglia: Journal of English Philology, vol. 137, no. 3 (2019), pp. 512-514.

Review of The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture, edited by Sonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day, Routledge, 2018. Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (2019), pp. 206-215.

Review of Verhandlungen von Kindlichkeit: Die englischen Kinderschauspieltruppen der Shakespeare-Zeit by Bastian Kuhl, Winter, 2017. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, vol. 30, no. 1 (2019), pp. 183-184.

Review of (Un)Making the Monarchy, edited by Anette Pankratz and Claus Ulrich Viol, Winter, 2017. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 24, no. 2 (2017), pp. 211-214.

 

Miscellaneous

(with Ralf Schneider). “Konferenzbericht: Transformations of Childhood in Contemporary Britain.” Mitteilungen des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, no. 1 (2015), pp. 53-5.