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. The ways adults facilitated—and in some cases
prevented—access to picture books, schoolbooks, textbooks,
comics, magazines, and other media to youth between infancy and
adolescence reveals the complicated interplay between children’s
internal wishes and grown-ups’ external expectations over time.
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.
General
Imprint: |
Aarhus Universitetsforlag
|
Country of origin: |
Denmark |
Series: |
The Nordic World |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
Authors: |
Nina Christensen
• Charlotte Appel
|
Dimensions: |
559 x 356 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
120 |
ISBN-13: |
978-87-7219-591-9 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
87-7219-591-6 |
Barcode: |
9788772195919 |
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