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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.
Text in Danish. This publication deals with the encounter between
the common Danish population of the 17th century and the printed
word -- and not least with the foundations of that meeting. Appel
examines the teaching of reading and the reading abilities of the
age in society outside the circles of the cultural elite, and
questions the general conception of a predominantly illiterate
population. The book draws a sketch of the book market of that
period, marked by expansion and differentiation, and of the various
attempts of the public authorities, including the church, to
control and make use of the new media. It also tells of the various
interests of the population in the art of reading, and of the
channels -- sale, loans and gift exchange -- through which the
printed papers reached the readers of the 17th century.
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