The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles /

The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles /

Greece and Rome have long featured in books for children and teens, whether through the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories or mythological compendiums. These depictions and adaptations of the Ancient World have varied at different times, however, in accordance with changes in soc...

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Other Authors: Maurice, Lisa, 1968-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2015.

Series: Metaforms 6.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287402.

Subjects:

Children's literature > Classical influences.
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
History, Ancient, in literature.
Rome > In literature.
Greece > In literature.

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Call Number: PN1009.A1 R416 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Lisa Maurice
  • Children, Greece and Rome: Heroes and Eagles /
  • Lisa Maurice
  • Classics, Children's Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown's Schooldays to The Enchanted Castle /
  • Elizabeth Hale
  • 'Time is only a mode of thought, you know': Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit's Literature for Children /
  • Joanna Paul
  • (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical Mythology /
  • Katarzyna Marciniak
  • The Metanarrative of Picture Books: 'Reading' Greek Myth for (and to) Children /
  • Barbara Weinlich
  • Reading the Fiction of Video Games /
  • Mary McMenomy
  • From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy Literature /
  • Lisa Maurice
  • Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia /
  • Niall W. Slater
  • Men into Pigs: Circe's Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children /
  • Sheila Murnaghan
  • Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First-Century Children's Fiction /
  • Geoffrey Miles
  • The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for Children /
  • Deborah H. Roberts
  • The "Grand Tour" as Transformative Experience in Children's Novels about the Roman Invasion /
  • Catherine Butler
  • "Wulf the Briton": Resisting Rome in a 1950s British Boys' Adventure Strip /
  • Tony Keen
  • Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern /
  • Eran Almagor
  • Bibliography /
  • Lisa Maurice
  • Index /
  • Lisa Maurice.