Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Beowulf in and near Children’s Literature 1
6. 1. “A Little Shared Homer for England and the North”: The First Beowulf for Young Readers 20
7. 2. The Adaptational Character of the Earliest Beowulf for English Children: E.L. Hervey’s “The Fight with the Ogre” 56
8. 3. Tolkien, Beowulf, and Faërie: Adaptations for Readers Aged “Six to Sixty” 85
9. 4. Treatments of Beowulf as a Source in Mid-Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature 111
10. 5. Visualizing Femininity in Children’s and Illustrated Versions of Beowulf 131
11. 6. What We See in the Grendel Cave: Manipulations of Perspective in Beowulf for Children 173
12. 7. Beowulf, Bèi’àowǔfǔ, and the Social Hero 192
13. 8. The Monsters and the Animals: Theriocentric Beowulfs 220
14. 9. Children’s Beowulfs for the New Tolkien Generation 243
15. 10. The Practice of Adapting Beowulf for Younger Readers: A Conversation with Rebecca Barnhouse and James Rumford 265
16. 11. Children’s Versions of Beowulf: A Bibliography 279
17. Index 299