Adventure stories aimed towards girls are often restricted by domestic elements. Is that their only appeal?

Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Adventure stories aimed towards girls are often restricted by domestic elements. Is that their only appeal? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Girls and Domestic Adventures

In this subject, students investigate the development of literature for children from the traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, through early publishing, to the emergence of genres of adventure, fantasy and realism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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