Velma Bourgeois Richmond: 3 books
Don Quixote as Children's Literature
A Tradition in English Words and Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction. From its publication in 1605, Don Quixote—recently named the world’s best book by authors from 54 countries—has been widely translated and imitated. Among its less acknowledged imitations are stories in children’s...
The Faerie Queene as Children's Literature
Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Edmund Spenser’s vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. In it he fused traditions of medieval romance and classical epic, his religious and political allegory creating...
Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature
Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry—epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain,...