'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children's Books

'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children's Books

A Comparative Study of Four National Literary Traditions

Kommers, Jean

Brill

09/2022

350

Dura

Inglês

9789004522800

15 a 20 dias

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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



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History of eduction; antiquarian children’s books; book illustrations; cultural history; ethnic images and discrimination; exoticism; literary genres; minorities; racism; religion and education; social engagement; social history; social inequality; xenophobia