Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature (Hardcover)

From the Enlightenment to the Present Day

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

1st ed. 2017 - Erschienen 11.09.2017 - Gebunden, 284 Seiten, 216mm x 153mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng

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Breaks fresh ground in a previously disparate field of studyOffers a multi-disciplinary insight into one of the key theoretical underpinnings of children's literatureConsolidates the work of international experts within the field

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.

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.

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.

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