{"title":"What is a Children’s Book? What is a Book for Children? Are they the Same Thing? The Latest Intervention in an On-going Project*","authors":"F. Mendlesohn","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2020.1739283","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article is part of a wider project on fiction about the English Civil war. Mendlesohn discusses the issues of applying common means of identifying ‘children's literature’ to the genre of historical fiction, and argues that if the common definitions are used, most historical fiction is for younger readers.","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2020.1739283","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Childhood in the Past","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2020.1739283","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article is part of a wider project on fiction about the English Civil war. Mendlesohn discusses the issues of applying common means of identifying ‘children's literature’ to the genre of historical fiction, and argues that if the common definitions are used, most historical fiction is for younger readers.
期刊介绍:
Childhood in the Past provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of papers from any field of study which can further knowledge and understanding of the nature and experience of childhood in the past.