Re-visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers: The Past through Modern Eyes

by Kim Wilson

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This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0415890071

ISBN13:9780415890076

Release Date:June 2011

Publisher:Routledge

Length:228 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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