Internationalism in children's series /
Internationalism in Children's Series investigates 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses in series created for a child readership. Using the familiarity of the series character and format to form a bridge to the wider world, authors from the ni...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Series: | Critical approaches to children's literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Stepping out into the world : series and internationalism / Karen Sands-O'Connor
- Young Americans abroad : Jacob Abbott's Rollo on the Grand Tour and nineteenth-century travel series books / Chris Nesmith
- Our girls in the family of nations : girls' culture and Empire in Victorian girls' magazines / Janis Dawson
- The Stratemeyer Chums have fun in the Caribbean : American and Empire in children's series / Karen Sands-O'Connor
- 'A really big theme' : Americanization and world peace
- internationalism and/as nationalism in Lucy Fitch Perkin's Twins series / Jani L. Barker
- 'A bit of life actually lived in a foreign land' : internationalism as world friendship in children's series / Marietta A. Frank
- Lost cities : generic conventions, hidden places, and primitivism in juvenile series mysteries / Michael G. Cornelius
- 'Buy why are you so foreign?' : Blyton and Blighty / David Rudd
- 'Universal republic of children?' : 'other' children in Doǧan Kardeş children's periodical / Denis Arzuk
- Wizard in translation : linguistic and cultural concerns in Harry Potter / Hilary Brewster
- 'Hungry ghosts' : Kirsty Murray's Irish-Australian Children of the Wind series / Charlotte Beyer
- Building bridges to intercultural understanding : the other in contemporary Irish children's literature / Patricia Kennon.