'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books : : A Comparative Study of Four National Literary Traditions / / Jean Kommers.
This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature.
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Superior document: | Studia Imagologica ; 31 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studia Imagologica ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (363 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- A Book about Tales, Tales That Do Things
- Introduction
- 1 Subject, Sources and Approach
- 2 Representation and Symbolism: An Analysis Referring to Dutch Narratives
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Beginning: Some Translations
- 3 Stealing Children or Stealing Gypsies?
- 3.1 Crossing the Border
- 3.2 Who May Cross the Border?
- 3.3 The Border
- 3.4 Differences in Social Status and the ‘Intermediate Period’
- 3.5 The Character of the Intermediary
- 3.6 The Temptation
- 4 Why are Gypsies in Juvenile Literature Thieves of Children?
- 5 Xenophobia and Compassion
- 6 Conclusion
- 3 Intermezzo: How an Enduring German Religious Tale Changed into a ‘gypsy-tale’: Translation and Enculturation of Von Schmid’s Heinrich von Eichenfels (1817)
- 4 Gypsies in English Juvenile Literature
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Gypsies and “Englishness”
- 2.1 Introduction
- 3 Early Representations of gypsies (1787–1849)
- 3.1 Tales from the Late Eighteenth Century
- 3.2 The Early Nineteenth Century: Illustrated Moral and Instructive Texts
- 3.3 The Early Nineteenth Century: Literary Tales
- 4 The Victorian Age
- 4.1 Some Approaches
- 4.2 Textual gypsies as Presented in Victorian Children’s Literature
- 5 Conclusion
- 5 German Juvenile gypsy-Literature
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Early Nineteenth-Century German gypsy-tales
- 3 Some Post-1860 Tales
- 4 Conclusion
- 6 French Juvenile Literature
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Some Pre-1860 Texts
- 3 After 1860
- 4 Conclusion
- 7 Concluding Observations
- 1 Some Initial Reflections
- 2 Some Thoughts on Contemporary Interpretation
- 3 Analysis and Evaluation/Interpretation of Texts (and Authors)
- 4 A Literary Approach: Some Recurrent Themes
- 5 The Literary Traditions
- Bibliography
- Index.