Index
A
- Abrams, Rebecca
106, 110, 130, 132, 133, 137, 200
- adulthood
- as being
27, 93, 127, 163, 190
- infantilisation of
2–3, 7–8, 93
- onstage and backstage versions of
10–11, 92, 101, 114, 117, 167, 195
- adulting
126–128, 131, 135, 146
-
Adult Life Skills
133–135, 146–147, 162
- adventure
35, 71–72, 88–89, 97, 106, 114, 116, 118, 134, 162
- aetonormativity
12, 26–27, 40–41, 152–154
- agency
40, 72–73, 81, 91, 142, 170
-
Alice in Wonderland books
34–35, 71–72
- Althusser, Louis
29, 30, 67
- Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
10, 84, 143, 145, 155–156
- appearance
- in relation to age boundaries
63–66
- in relation to power
64, 70-71
- authority
27, 40, 73, 75, 95, 137, 158, 187, 195
B
- Barthes, Roland
83, 86, 122, 129, 170
- Beauvais, Clémentine
12, 27, 34, 40–41, 58, 68, 150, 152
-
Black Dog
74–75, 82–83, 93–94
- body-swapping and body-changing narratives
63–64
- boundaries
- age boundaries
11–13, 13–14, 61, 84–86, 105, 108–113, 152–157
- blurring in early twenty-first century Britain
4, 9–10
- blurring previously
5–9, 66
- blurring through technology
10, 184–186
- vestimentary
65–66, 83–102
- behavioural
105, 108–109, 118–120
- Bullough, Vern L. and Bonnie Bullough
85, 92, 97
- Butler, Judith
43, 66–67, 68–69, 102, 104, 139, 144
C
- Camp Wildfire
113–121, 122, 124–126, 142, 167, 176, 177, 201
- Carroll, Jane Suzanne
169, 174
- childhood
- as becoming
27, 93, 163, 190
- children’s literature
7, 12, 16, 27, 35, 42, 46, 50–51, 69, 71–72
- chrononormativity
28–29, 46, 124, 158
- community
- child-adult play community
140–145
- in relation to passing
80, 83
- in relation to playfulness
139
- containment
- captivity narratives
157–166
- in relation to growth
152–154
-
Cosmic
78–83, 127–128, 173, 198
- Covid-19
95, 101, 197–198
D
-
Darcy Burdock
99–101, 194
- de Certeau, Michel
151, 183
- de Saussure, Ferdinand
65–66, 83
- discourses of adulthood and childhood intruding on each other
1–3
- dressing up
97–102, 115–118, 122
F
- Flügel, J. C.
64, 66, 86, 101
- Foucault, Michel
87, 152, 160–161
- Freeman, Elizabeth
28–29, 46
G
- gender
13–14, 27–28, 33–35, 43, 58–60, 194
- in relation to height
75–76
- in relation to passing
81–82
- in relation to play
129–138
- in relation to wild(er)ness
170–171, 174, 177, 179–181, 186–187
- Griffiths, Jay
34, 150, 170, 200
- growth
- alternative concepts
32–49
- growing down
33, 35–36, 194
- growth as a mindset
37, 162–163, 190
- grand narrative of upwards growth
4, 25–32
- sideways, as a phrase in queer theory
47–48
- sideways, as a phrase in the This Is England cycle
22–24, 91
- sideways, working definition of
52–61
- upwards, as a phrase in the This Is England cycle
23, 54–55, 91
-
see also adulthood, childhood, identity categories, queer
H
- Halberstam, Jack (Judith)
32, 46, 121, 168, 171, 183, 189
- Hall, Stuart
14–15, 57–58
- Hollindale, Peter
38–39, 42, 136
- Huizinga, Johan
111–112, 118, 139
I
- identity categories
4, 13–14, 22, 41, 58–60, 64
- as uninhabitable
43, 66, 103–104
- ideology
15, 29–30, 109–110
- imagination
57, 127, 131–133, 140–141, 144
- collective imagination
144–115, 150
J
-
Jackdaw Summer
174–178, 180–181, 187
- Joosen, Vanessa
9, 12, 65, 69, 103, 129, 198
L
- Langer, Ellen
29, 37, 190
- language
- connotations of sideways
49–52
- idiosyncratic terminology of sideways growth
96, 100–101, 138
- imperative to grow up
31–32
-
see also vague concepts, height
- Lee, Nick
27, 41, 42, 57, 79
- liminality
11–12, 54–55, 195
- Lingel, Jessa
69–70, 79, 80
M
-
Mary Poppins oeuvre
35, 70, 164
- Meyrowitz, Joshua
6, 10–11, 66, 150, 154, 158
-
Miranda
76–77, 82–83, 94, 135–138, 194
- Moriarty, Sinéad
181, 199
-
My Dad’s A Birdman
140–141
N
- natural literacy
155, 186
- Nikolajeva, Maria
12, 26–27, 33–34, 152
- Nodelman, Perry
42, 115, 169
- nostalgia
42, 114–115, 151
O
-
Ostrich Boys
178–181, 187
P
- parent-child inversion narrative
127
-
Peter Pan in Scarlet
8, 30, 99
-
Peter Pan oeuvre
6-7, 30, 33–35, 150
-
Pippi Longstocking oeuvre
138, 196
- play
- as capitalist training
122, 124
- as “training for the unexpected”
113, 183
- concepts of
108–109, 111–112
- in relation to activism
199–200
- in relation to gender
129–131
- trends in early twenty-first century Britain
109–110
-
see also community, adventure
- power
- dynamics of adult-child relationships
12, 26–27, 39–41, 69, 84, 152–155
- child-adult binary in other power dynamics
27–28
-
see also aetonormativity, authority, might
Q
- queer
- children’s literature research
46
R
- race
22, 28, 41, 176, 186
- Reynolds, Kimberley
5-7, 144
- rites of passage
29–30, 53–56
S
- school uniforms
84, 86–88
- scouting
114–121, 129–130
- sea, as the landscape of growing sideways
38
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
45, 190, 195
- snail
xi, 1, 20, 101, 134, 165, 202
- space
- in relation to time
149–150
- spatial practices
151, 183
- Stockton, Kathryn Bond
47–48, 59, 129
- structures of feeling
4, 14–16, 84–85, 109, 194
- surveillance
123, 156–157, 158–160
- symbolic clothing
83, 84, 115–118
T
- temporal vertigo
38, 89, 115
- Thatcherism
21, 106–107, 143–145, 188
-
The Bunker Diary
157–160, 165–166
-
The Child in Time
105–107, 113, 120, 142
-
The Dressing-Up Dad
97–99
-
The Middle of Nowhere
51, 173
-
The Sparticle Mystery
183–184
-
This Is England cycle
21–25, 53–60, 89–91, 143–145, 150–151, 188–189
- time
- queer
46–47, 55, 121, 129, 138
- Trites, Roberta Seelinger
4, 11–12, 25–27, 44, 131, 149, 193
V
- vague concepts
42–43, 103–104
-
Vice Versâ: A Lesson to Fathers
63
W
- Waller, Alison
11–12, 33–34
-
Where the Wild Things Are
169
- wild
- as a concept in queer theory
168
-
Wild Girl, Wild Boy: A Play
180–181
- Williams, Raymond
4, 14–15, 84–85, 107