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Transnational books for children 1750-1900 : producers, consumers, encounters / edited by Charlotte Appel, Nina Christensen, M.O. Grenby.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Appel, Charlotte, 1960- editor.
Christensen, Nina, 1968- editor.
Grenby, M. O. (Matthew Orville), 1970- editor.
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Series:
Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; v. 15.
Children's literature, culture, and cognition, 2212-9006 ; volume 15
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Children's literature--History and criticism.
Children's literature.
Children's literature--Publishing--History.
Children's books--History.
Children's books.
Children--Books and reading--History--19th century.
Children.
Children--Books and reading--History--18th century.
Literature and transnationalism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]
Contents:
Part I. Transnational genres
Spreading the words: global networks and the circulation of cheap instructional and religious children's print / M.O. Grenby
Almanacs for children: the transnational evolution of a classic of popular print / Elisa Marazzi
"Altering the original fables to suit Chinese notions": a case study of Robert Thom's Yishi yuyan (1840) / Limin Bai
Catherine the Great's writings for children in transnational context / Sara Pankenier Weld
Part II. Migrant books
Comenius in New York / Patricia Crain
Collecting, translating and adapting: late eighteenth-century transfer between Christian Felix Weisse's Der Kinderfreund, Joachim Heinrich Campe's Kleine Kinderbibliothek, and Arnaud Berquin's L'Ami des Enfans / Ute Dettmar
The journey of "Lille Alvilde": the fluid life of a children's classic / Aasta Marie Bjorvand Bjørkøy and Janicke S. Kaasaa
Playful reading: transnational interactions between books, toys, and other media in Northern Europe around 1830 / Nina Christensen
From Michaelmas-Day to Thanksgiving: the transatlantic transformation of Michaelmas Day / Laura Wasowicz
Part III. Agents and networks of transnational communication
Make it Irish! Reprints and hibernicizations for (young) Irish readers in eighteenth-century Dublin / Emer O'Sullivan
Translating, transforming, and targeting books for children: author and publisher Morten Hallager as a transnational agent in late Enlightenment Denmark / Charlotte Appel
German in Hebrew letters: transnational encounters in Jewish children's literature during the Haskalah, 1750-1850 / Gabriele von Glasenapp
Part IV. Transnational readers and the effects of transnational communication
"Travel [...] is a part of education": teachers, children, and books on the move / Jill Shefrin
Girlhood as a transnational creation: an international perspective on Dutch girls' books (1750-1800) / Feike Dietz
The enslaved in late-Enlightenment stories for children: the real and the imaginary / Lissa Paul
A world of books: the transnational imagination of child bookmakers in late nineteenth-century America / Karen Sánchez-Eppler.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 09, 2023).
ISBN:
9789027252791
9027252793
Publisher Number:
40031927783
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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