Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature

1. Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: An Introduction, Emer O’Sullivan.- 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 and Cultures 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 inChildren’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.- Index