Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature

1. Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: An Introduction
Emer O’Sullivan, Andrea Immel

Part I. Ethnography on Display

2. Learning to See: Eighteenth-Century Children’s Prints and the Discourse of Othering
Silke Meyer

3. Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations
Emer O’Sullivan

4. Figuring the World: Representing Children’s Encounters with Other Peoples at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Gillian Lathey

5. Imagining the World in Bavarian Children’s Books: Place and Other as Engineered by Lothar Meggendorfer
Amanda M. Brian

Part II. Internationalism and Tolerance

6. Imagining Equality: The Emergence of the Ideas of Tolerance, Universalism, and Human Rights in Danish Magazines for Children, 1750–1800
Nina Christensen

7. An Anthropologist Shows Girls a World of Difference: Louis-François Jauffret’s Géographie dramatique

Cynthia J. Koepp

8. Information or Exoticization? Constructing Religious Difference in Children’s Information Books
Gabriele von Glasenapp

Part III. Constructing Self and Nation

9. Anxious Encounters: Picturing the Street Child in On the Sidewalks of New York

Lara Saguisag

10. Russian Picturebooks from 1922 to 1934: Modernization, Sense of Nationhood, Internationalism
Verena Rutschmann

11. Appropriating the “Wild North”: The Image of Canada and Its Exploitation in German Children’s Literature
Martina Seifert

12. Travel as Construction of Self and Nation
Margaret R. Higonnet

Keywords: Literature, Children's Literature