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FICTION WRITING HISTORY: TRUTH, ILLUSION AND IDEOLOGY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORICAL FICTION FOR CHILDREN


PETER HUNT
Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Issue:

CP, Number 19

Section:

No. 19 (2014)  Editorial

Abstract:

This paper looks at some of the political, gender and educational implications of rewriting history in English-language children's literature and the ways in which writers of fiction manipulate historical ‘facts’, in the context of the relatively small amount of historical knowledge that modern British children possess.

Keywords:

history, children’s literature, gender, education, fiction, politics.

Code [ID]:

CP201419V00S01A0001 [0004337]


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