Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900 : Producers, Consumers, Encounters / edited by Charlotte Appel, Nina Christensen, and M. O. Grenby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appel, Charlotte, 1960- editor.

Christensen, Nina, 1968- editor.

Grenby, M. O. (Matthew Orville), 1970- editor.

Series:

Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; Volume 15.

Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition Series ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

hildren's literature--Publishing--History.

hildren's literature.

Children's books--History.

Children's books.

Children--Books and reading--History--19th century.

Children.

Children--Books and reading--History--18th century.

Literature and transtionalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Summary:

This is the first study to take a comprehensive look at transnational children's literature in the period before 1900. The chapters examine what we mean by 'children's literature' in this period, as well as what we mean by 'transnational' in the context of children's culture.

Contents:

Intro

Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

List of figures

Introduction

What is the "transnational"?

Drivers of transnational circulation

Further questions

References

Part I Transnational genres

Chapter 1 Spreading the words

Exporting cheap children's print

Printing in colonial locations

"Primers for the Indians" in New England

Tranquebar

European texts in local languages

Hybridized forms and formats

Conclusions

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Chapter 2 Almanacs for children

Almanacs in early modern Europe

Testing new strategies

Early Dutch almanacs for children

From astrology to anthology

Fine almanacs for the nineteenth-century child

Almanacs or magazines?

Almanacs and schools in Mediterranean Europe

Conclusion

Chapter 3 "Altering the original fables to suit Chinese notions"

The adaptability of L'Estrange's Aesop into Chinese

The transnational nature of the Yishi yuyan

Altering "the original fables to suit Chinese notions"

Transferring cultural narratives through adaptation

Chapter 4 Catherine the Great's writings for children in transnational context

The education of Catherine the Great

Mirrors for Princes

Catherine's writings for children and the oriental tale

Catherine's writings for children and Diderot's Encyclopedia

Catherine's writings and Comenius' Orbis Pictus

Part II Migrant books

Chapter 5 Comenius in New York

The world in pictures

The Orbis Pictus in the United States

Traces of US child readers.

The Orbis Pictus in the New York Public Library

Transnational readers

Chapter 6 Collecting, translating and adapting

Arnaud Berquin's L'Ami des Enfans

Research and sources

Translating, editing, adapting

Weiße's journal Der Kinderfreund (1775-1782) in cultural transfer

Selection criteria and translation practice

Chapter 7 The journey of "Lille Alvilde"

"Lille Alvilde" in England

"Lille Alvilde" in the United States

Adapting Alvilde

Circulation and fluidity in the life of the literary work

Chapter 8 Playful reading

Children's use of books in transnational contexts

Illustrated books in Germany and Denmark

Addressing German and Danish readers

Reading, playing, and entertainment culture in and around the narrative

Reading and ludic culture in practice in Denmark around 1840

Chapter 9 From Michaelmas-Day to Thanksgiving

Poor Molly Goosey, the unwitting "star" of Michaelmas Day

Molly Goosey meets the new "tradition" of American Thanksgiving

Molly Goosey becomes "La Gansa Amorosa"

Part III Agents and networks of transnational communication

Chapter 10 Make it Irish!

A museum for young [Irish] gentlemen and ladies

Publishing in Ireland in the eighteenth century

James Hoey Junior, bookseller and printer

Make it Irish!

Hoey's material on Ireland

Hunting the sources in geography textbooks

Secondary sources.

Chapter 11 Translating, transforming, and targeting books for children

A spectrum of translations and adaptations

Late Enlightenment Denmark

Morten Hallager and his book business

Translations and adaptations as default

Minor and moderate interventions

Major interventions in works by one author

Compilations and own compositions

Chapter 12 German in Hebrew letters

Historical background

Jewish children's literature

The beginnings of Jewish children's literature during the Haskalah

Book type

Genre

Multilingualism and translations

Part IV Transnational readers and the effects of transnational communication

Chapter 13 "Travel […] is a part of education"

The teachers

The children

The booksellers

Chapter 14 Girlhood as a transnational creation

Girls' books on the Dutch book market

Female hierarchies in girls' books in translation

Two-stage hierarchies girls' books in translation

Peer mothering in Dutch epistolary girls' novels

Chapter 15 The enslaved in late-Enlightenment stories for children

Enslaved people and sensibility in early children's books

The slavery question

Recruiting armies of (White) children

Amelioration as one answer to the slavery question

The very different stories told by enslaved people

Towards reparations

Chapter 16 A World of books

An American family and their books

Books that make a world

The violence of world-making

A world that makes books

Texts by the Nelsons.

Writings about daily life

Library of homemade books and periodicals

Other primary sources

About the editors and contributors

Name index

Countries and languages index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Appel, Charlotte Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900

ISBN:

9789027252791

9027252793

OCLC:

1391438997