Overview
- Breaks fresh ground in a previously disparate field of study
- Offers a multi-disciplinary insight into one of the key theoretical underpinnings of children's literature
- Consolidates the work of international experts within the field
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood. The chapters address different models of presenting foreigners using examples from children’s educational prints, dramatic performances, travel narratives, comics, and picture books. Contributors illuminate the ways in which the texts negotiate the tensions between the Enlightenment ideal of internationalism and discrete national or ethnic identities cultivated since the Romantic era, providing examples of ethnocentric cultural perspectives and of cultural relativism, as well as instances where discussions of child reader agency indicate how they might participate eventually in a tolerant transnational community.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Ethnography on Display
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Internationalism and Tolerance
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Constructing Self and Nation
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emer O'Sullivan is Professor of English Literature at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. She is the author of Kinderliterarische Komparatistik, which won the biennial IRSCL Award for outstanding research and Comparative Children's Literature, which won the Children’s Literature Association 2007 Book Award, among others.
Andrea Immel is Curator of the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University, USA. She has co-edited four collections of essays including Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe and The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature. Her scholarly facsimile edition of Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book won the Justin G. Schiller Prize.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature
Book Subtitle: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
Editors: Emer O'Sullivan, Andrea Immel
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46168-1Published: 11 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46169-8Published: 31 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 268
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Children's Literature