Table Of ContentCritical Approaches to Children’s Literature
Series Editors: Kerry Mallan and Clare Bradford
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature is an innovative series concerned with
the best contemporary scholarship and criticism on children’s and young adult
literature, film, and media texts. The series addresses new and developing areas
of children’s literature research as well as bringing contemporary perspectives to
historical texts. The series has a distinctive take on scholarship, delivering qual-
ity works of criticism written in an accessible style for a range of readers, both
academic and professional. The series is invaluable for undergraduate students in
children’s literature as well as advanced students and established scholars.
Published titles include:
Cherie Allan
PLAYING WITH PICTUREBOOKS
Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque
Clare Bradford, Kerry Mallan, John Stephens & Robyn McCallum
NEW WORLD ORDERS IN CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Utopian Transformations
Alice Curry
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION
A Poetics of Earth
Helen A Fairlie
REVALUING BRITISH BOYS’ STORY PAPERS, 1918–1939
Margaret Mackey
NARRATIVE PLEASURES IN YOUNG ADULT NOVELS, FILMS
AND VIDEO GAMES
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
Kerry Mallan
SECRETS, LIES AND CHILDREN’S FICTION
Andrew O’Malley
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, POPULAR CULTURE, AND ROBINSON CRUSOE
Christopher Parkes
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND CAPITALISM
Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850–1914
Karen Sands-O’Connor and Marietta Frank (editors)
INTERNATIONALISM IN CHILDREN’S SERIES
Michelle Smith
EMPIRE IN BRITISH GIRLS’ LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Imperial Girls, 1880–1915
Forthcoming titles:
Elizabeth Bullen
CLASS IN CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Pamela Knights
READING BALLET AND PERFORMANCE NARRATIVES FOR CHILDREN
Susan Napier
MIYAZAKI HAYO AND THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT
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Internationalism in
Children’s Series
Edited by
Karen Sands-O’Connor
Buffalo State University, USA
and
Marietta A. Frank
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA
Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Karen Sands-O’Connor and
Marietta A. Frank, 2014
Remaining chapters © Contributors 2014
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Contents
Series Editors’ Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
Notes on Contributors xi
1 Introduction: Stepping Out into the World: Series and
Internationalism 1
Karen Sands-O’Connor
Part I Nineteenth-Century Series Go Abroad
2 Young Americans Abroad: Jacob Abbott’s Rollo on the
Grand Tour and Nineteenth-Century Travel Series Books 19
Chris Nesmith
3 Our Girls in the Family of Nations: Girls’ Culture
and Empire in Victorian Girls’ Magazines 38
Janis Dawson
Part II Syndicates, Empires, and Politics
4 The Stratemeyer Chums Have Fun in the Caribbean:
America and Empire in Children’s Series 59
Karen Sands-O’Connor
5 ‘A really big theme’: Americanization and World
Peace – Internationalism and/as Nationalism in
Lucy Fitch Perkins’s Twins Series 76
Jani L. Barker
6 ‘A bit of life actually lived in a foreign land’:
Internationalism as World Friendship in Children’s Series 95
Marietta A. Frank
7 Lost Cities: Generic Conventions, Hidden Places,
and Primitivism in Juvenile Series Mysteries 107
Michael G. Cornelius
8 ‘But why are you so foreign?’: Blyton and Blighty 125
David Rudd
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Part III Translating Histories and Cultures
9 ‘Universal Republic of Children?’: ‘Other’ Children
in Do˘gan Kardes¸ Children’s Periodical 143
Deniz Arzuk
10 Wizard in Translation: Linguistic and Cultural
Concerns in Harry Potter 159
Hilary Brewster
11 ‘Hungry ghosts’: Kirsty Murray’s Irish-Australian
Children of the Wind Series 174
Charlotte Beyer
12 Building Bridges to Intercultural Understanding:
The Other in Contemporary Irish Children’s Literature 194
Patricia Kennon
Index 210
Series Editors’ Preface
The Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature series was initiated in
2008 by Kerry Mallan and Clare Bradford. The aim of the series is to
identify and publish the best contemporary scholarship and criticism
on children’s and young adult literature, film, and media texts. The
series is open to theoretically informed scholarship covering a wide
range of critical perspectives on historical and contemporary texts from
diverse national and cultural settings. Critical Approaches aims to make
a significant contribution to the expanding field of children’s literature
research by publishing quality books that promote informed discussion
and debate about the production and reception of children’s literature
and its criticism.
Kerry Mallan and Clare Bradford
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