Table of contents
Acknowledgments
VII
List of figures
IX
Introduction
1
Part I.Transnational genres
Chapter 1.
Spreading the words
Global networks and the circulation of cheap
instructional and religious children’s print
18
Chapter 2.
Almanacs for children
The transnational evolution of a classic
of popular
print
46
Chapter 3.
“Altering the original fables to suit Chinese notions”
A case study of Robert Thom’s
Yishi
yuyan 意拾喻言 (1840)
69
Chapter 4.
Catherine the Great’s writings for children in transnational context
89
Part II.Migrant books
Chapter 5.
Comenius in New York
110
Chapter 6.
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
135
Chapter 7.
The journey of “Lille Alvilde”
The fluid life of a children’s classic
157
Chapter 8.
Playful reading
Transnational interactions between books, toys, and other media in
Northern Europe around 1830
176
Chapter 9.
From Michaelmas-Day to Thanksgiving
The transatlantic transformation of
Michaelmas
Day
198
Part III.Agents and networks of transnational communication
Chapter 10.
Make it Irish!
Reprints and hibernicizations for (young) Irish readers in eighteenth-century Dublin
226
Chapter 11.
Translating, transforming, and targeting books for children
Author and publisher Morten Hallager as a transnational agent in Late
Enlightenment Denmark
250
Chapter 12.
German in Hebrew letters
Transnational encounters in Jewish children’s literature during the
Haskalah, 1750–1850
273
Part IV.Transnational readers and the effects of transnational
communication
Chapter 13.
“Travel […] is a part of education”
Teachers, children,
and books on the move
296
Chapter 14.
Girlhood as a transnational creation
An international perspective on Dutch girls’ books
(1750–1800)
315
Chapter 15.
The enslaved in late-Enlightenment stories for children
The real and the imaginary
334
Chapter 16.
A World of books
The transnational imagination of child bookmakers
in late nineteenth-century America
356
About the editors and contributors
377
Name index
Countries and languages index