Children’s Literature and Old Norse Medievalism / / David Clark.
This book explores the ways in which contemporary authors respond to and rework key aspects of Old Norse history and viking culture for young twenty-first-century audiences. Why are contemporary authors and audiences so manifestly attracted to the viking past? In what ways do writers respond to Nors...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Arc Medievalist
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. The End
- Chapter 1. Age-Related Categories
- Chapter 2. Generic Categories
- Chapter 3. Transformational Fantasy
- Chapter 4. Horned Helmets and Comic Anachronism
- Chapter 5. Viking Reputation
- Chapter 6. Runes and Magic
- Chapter 7. The Power of Story
- Chapter 8. Race and Ethnicity
- Chapter 9. Heroism
- Chapter 10. Viking Masculinity
- Chapter 11. Viking Femininity
- Chapter 12. Viking Sex and Gender
- Chapter 13. Bowdlerization
- Chapter 14. Sexuality
- Chapter 15. Ecological Threat
- Chapter 16. Norse Medievalism in Alan Early’s Father of Lies Trilogy
- Chapter 17. Avoiding the End of Days: K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr’s Blackwell Pages
- Chapter 18. Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase Series and Norse Medievalism
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works
- Index