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Fantasy Has Been An Important And Much-loved Part Of Children's Literature For Hundreds Of Years, Yet Relatively Little Has Been Written About It. Children's Fantasy Literature Traces The Development Of The Tradition Of The Children's Fantastic - Fictions Specifically Written For Children And Fictions Appropriated By Them - From The Sixteenth To The Twenty-first Century, Examining The Work Of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling And Others From Across The English-speaking World. The Volume Considers Changing Views On Both The Nature Of The Child And On The Appropriateness Of Fantasy For The Child Reader, The Role Of Children's Fantasy Literature In Helping To Develop The Imagination, And Its Complex Interactions With Issues Of Class, Politics And Gender. The Text Analyses Hundreds Of Works Of Fiction, Placing Each In Its Appropriate Context Within The Tradition Of Fantasy Literature--amazon.com. Machine Generated Contents Note: Introduction; 1. How Fantasy Became Children's Literature; 2. Fairies, Ghouls And Goblins: The Realms Of Victorian Fancy; 3. The American Search For An American Childhood; 4. British And Empire Fantasy Between The Wars; 5. The

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Author

Michael M. Levy; Farah Mendlesohn

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781316487433

Category

education

Subjects

History, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.25 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14