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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.

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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.

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Introduction

1. Adventurous Hegemonies in the Imperial Romance

2. Romance Without Risk in Early American Girls' Scouting Fiction

3. We Didn't Mean to: The Accidental Adventurer in Ransome, Blyton, and Beyond

4. Risk and Randomness in Choose Your Own Adventure

5. Adventurous Authority in the Survival Novel

6. Treasure Chests and Tomb Raiders: Redistributing Risk in the Postcolonial Adventure Novel

Epilogue: Breaking Free