Middle Ages in Children's Literature

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).

'Clare Bradford's The Middle Ages in Children's Literature powerfully intervenes in the joint fields of medievalism and children's literature, exploring their mutual points of interest in recreating the historical past, as well as the present children who consume these fanciful renderings of times long gone by. Lucidly written and wonderfully detailed, Bradford's study promises that readers will never see the Middle Ages or children's literature with quite the same innocent eyes.' - Professor Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida, USA

• Introduction 1. Thinking about the Middle Ages 2. Temporality and the Medieval 3. Spatiality and the Medieval 4. Disabilities in Medievalist Fiction 5. Monstrous Bodies, Medievalist Inflexions 6. Medievalist Animals and their Humans 7. The Laughable Middle Ages Notes Bibliography Index