Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits of children, and with it the assumption that adventure is a timeless and stable constant whose meaning and value is self-evident.

Eleanor McCausland is Associate Professor of English Literature at Ghent University, where she teaches on children’s literature, nineteenth-century literature, and literature and popular music. Her research interests include medievalism, children’s literature, ecocriticism, and adaptation. She is also an award-winning food writer.