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Critical 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 Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Series Standing Order ISBN 978–0–230–22786–6 (hardback) 978–0–230–22787–3 (paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a stand- ing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of diffi culty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England 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 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-36030-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-47187-4 ISBN 978-1-137-36031-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137360311 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. To my chum, another in the series! KSO To D. and K. m. This page intentionally left blank 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 vii viii Contents 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 ix
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