The Middle Ages in Children's Literature

Children grow up surrounded by stories, motifs, characters and themes which respond to the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages in Children's Literature explores the use and abuse of the medieval in children's literature, the many forms in which it appears, and its enduring capacity to enchant the young.

Author: C. Bradford
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/16/2015
Pages: 209
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137035387

About the Author
Clare Bradford is Professor of Literary Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her books include Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature (2001), Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature (2007), and New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations (with Kerry Mallan, John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, 2008).