Internationalism in Children’s Series

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Stepping Out into the World: Series and Internationalism....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Young Americans Abroad: Jacob Abbott’s Rollo on the Grand Tour and Nineteenth-Century Travel Series Books....Pages 19-37
Our Girls in the Family of Nations: Girls’ Culture and Empire in Victorian Girls’ Magazines....Pages 38-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
The Stratemeyer Chums Have Fun in the Caribbean: America and Empire in Children’s Series....Pages 59-75
’A really big theme’: Americanization and World Peace — Internationalism and/ as Nationalism in Lucy Fitch Perkins’s Twins Series....Pages 76-94
‘A bit of life actually lived in a foreign land’: Internationalism as World Friendship in Children’s Series....Pages 95-106
Lost Cities: Generic Conventions, Hidden Places, and Primitivism in Juvenile Series Mysteries....Pages 107-124
‘But why are you so foreign?’: Blyton and Blighty....Pages 125-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
’Universal Republic of Children?’: ‘Other’ Children in Doğan Kardeş Children’s Periodical....Pages 143-158
Wizard in Translation: Linguistic and Cultural Concerns in Harry Potter....Pages 159-173
‘Hungry ghosts’: Kirsty Murray’s Irish-Australian Children of the Wind Series....Pages 174-193
Building Bridges to Intercultural Understanding: The Other in Contemporary Irish Children’s Literature....Pages 194-209
Back Matter....Pages 210-215