Beowulf as Children’s Literature / / ed. by Bruce Gilchrist, Britt Mize.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Carl Edlund,; Busbee, Mark Bradshaw,; Dunai, Amber,; Gilchrist, Bruce,; Kisor, Yvette,; Mize, Britt,; Schrunk Ericksen, Janet,; Stanton, Robert,; Ward, Renée,
• HerausgeberIn: Gilchrist, Bruce,; Mize, Britt,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 27 b&w illustrations

The single largest category of Beowulf representation and adaptation, outside of direct translation of the poem, is children’s literature. Over the past century and a half, more than 150 new versions of Beowulf directed to child and teen audiences have appeared, in English and in many other language...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Beowulf in and near Children’s Literature
• 1. “A Little Shared Homer for England and the North”: The First Beowulf for Young Readers
• 2. The Adaptational Character of the Earliest Beowulf for English Children: E.L. Hervey’s “The Fight with the Ogre”
• 3. Tolkien, Beowulf, and Faërie: Adaptations for Readers Aged “Six to Sixty”
• 4. Treatments of Beowulf as a Source in Mid-Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature
• 5. Visualizing Femininity in Children’s and Illustrated Versions of Beowulf
• 6. What We See in the Grendel Cave: Manipulations of Perspective in Beowulf for Children
• 7. Beowulf, Bèi’àowǔfǔ, and the Social Hero
• 8. The Monsters and the Animals: Theriocentric Beowulfs
• 9. Children’s Beowulfs for the New Tolkien Generation
• 10. The Practice of Adapting Beowulf for Younger Readers: A Conversation with Rebecca Barnhouse and James Rumford
• 11. Children’s Versions of Beowulf: A Bibliography
• Index