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