How medieval literature reflected the changes in the philosophy of childhood.

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How Literature Reflects Changing Childhood

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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