Description: "Cecire calls upon readers to acknowledge the dangers of the Oxford School's project while recognizing the cultural power its members harnessed. She encourages us to embrace and explore new ways of expanding the scope of the tropes of children's fantasy to become more inclusive in the ways it reaches into the past to find magic in a difficult contemporary world."-- Medievally Speaking "Effectively, Cecire proves that in terms of modern children's fantasy literature, all roads lead to the Oxford School."-- CHOICE "Cecire illustrates brilliantly how Tolkien and Lewis took the building blocks of medieval literature and historical linguistics and created alternative worlds."-- Times Literary Supplement "An important and endlessly engaging book that will provoke much further thought and discussion."-- Mythlore "A compelling case both for training our critical attention on medieval and medievalist literature and for expanding the texts we read, teach, study, and share."-- The Medieval Review

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