This volume introduces an international readership to the role books have played in the lives and upbringing of young people in the Nordic countries from the 1750s until today. Charlotte Appel and Nina Christensen look beyond an overview of noteworthy texts and characters to address the region's distinctive reading cultures and the interactions between literature and changing views of childhood, with a special focus on Denmark.
The emergence of a dedicated market for children's books in the Global North coincided with national school reforms, when Luther's Small Catechism started to be supplemented-or replaced-by new books published for and about young readers, learners, and citizens. Children's use of books and media is closely related to adults' wishes to influence the present and future of a child through instruction, entertainment, or play. Chapters point to strong continuities as well as remarkable changes in the relationships between child readers and adult authors, artists, publishers, teachers, librarians, and parents through the centuries.
Focusing on children as the central users and producers of texts, this interdisciplinary and transnational history shows how children's exposure to and use of media impacted the Nordic welfare state, and vice versa. As narratives for young audiences are continuously rewritten, republished, and adapted into new forms, this pithy synthesis brings forward new knowledge about the material and social history of books, literature, and childhood.
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Höhe: 198 mm
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Dicke: 10 mm
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978-0-299-33634-9 (9780299336349)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Charlotte Appel is an associate professor at Aarhus University, where she teaches early modern Danish and European history. Her books include Religious Reading in the Lutheran North: Studies in Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture. Nina Christensen is a professor and the head of the Center for Children's Literature and Media at Aarhus University. She is a coeditor of the Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition book series and the coeditor of the volume Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition.
Introduction
The books on Emma's and Alfred's bookshelves
How to write a history of children's books and media
Inspirations and approaches
Children's literature across different media
Denmark and the Nordic region
The contents of this book
CHAPTER 1 Education of young hearts and minds 1750-1820
Hans Christian's and Friederike's reading cultures
Traditional instruction in reading and Christian faith
State, church, and school reforms
New perceptions of childhood
A new market and new genres for children
The Young Robinson - A bestseller
CHAPTER 2 The child as a future patriotic citizen 1820-1900
Anton's and Ida's reading cultures
Nation-building and modernization
Ideals and realities surrounding children
Romantic ideas and fairy tales
Poems and picturebooks
Publishers and new media
CHAPTER 3The child as a co-citizen 1900-1950
Tove's and Jens Otto's reading cultures
Wars, crises and the emergence of the welfare state
The new autonomous child
Books and media on an expanded market
Child characters and child authors
CHAPTER 4 New roles and new rights for children 1950-2000
Reading cultures around Manu, Frederik, and Rachel
Growing up in the welfare state
Children's rights and influence
Children's increased access to books and media
From social realism to fantasy ?
CHAPTER 5 Autonomous children in a globalized world. The 21st Century
Back to Emma's and Alfred's rooms
Nordic children in a globalized world
Books, media and changing institutions
Tendencies in current children's literature
CONCLUSION
