Change language
English Deutsch
Change currency
€ EUR £ GBP $ USD
Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by Edinburgh University Press 2024

17 Imagined Communities: Digital Tools for the Study of St Nicholas’s Global and National Readership

From the book The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

  • Shawna McDermott
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399506663-023
© 2024, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
From the book
The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

Chapters in this book (46)

Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
General Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Creating Communities in Children’s Periodicals
Part I Telling Tales
Introduction
1 The Lilliputian Magazine: Entertaining Education in the Service of Profit and Reform
2 For the Youth, By the Youth: Child-Centrism and the Rise of the Fantastic in Juvenile Print Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
3 Old and New World Fairy Tales in St Nicholas Magazine
4 Enid Blyton’s Wartime Sunny Stories: Facilitating Fantasies of Child Heroism
5 Girls Growing Up: Reading ‘Erotic Bloods’ in Interwar Britain
6 ‘There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed’: Supernatural Possession in British Girls’ Comics
Part II Making Readers and Writers
Introduction
7 The Literary Olympic and Riddle Tournament: Competition and Community in Young Folks Paper (1871–1897)
8 Children’s Columns in British Regional Newspapers
9 School Magazines, Collective Cultures, and the Making of Late Victorian Periodical Culture
10 Charity, Cultural Exchange, and Generational Difference in Scottish Children’s Writings about the First World War
11 ‘My great ambition is to be an authoress’: Constructing Space for Literary Girlhoods in Australasian Children’s Correspondence Pages, 1900–1930
12 The Indian English Periodical Target: Popularity and Nostalgia
13 Classic Adventures and the Construction of the ‘Classic’ Reader in the 1990s
Part III Place and Self
Introduction
14 The Brownies’ Book and the American Children’s Publishing Industry
15 Who Speaks for Welsh Children? Early Welsh Children’s Periodicals
16 Colonial Modernity in Print Culture: Revisiting Juvenile Periodicals in Nineteenth- Century Bengal
17 Imagined Communities: Digital Tools for the Study of St Nicholas’s Global and National Readership
18 Teaching Humanitarianism to British Children through the Junior Red Cross Journal in the 1920s
19 The Portrayal of Japanese Girls in British Girls’ Magazines between the 1880s and 1910s
20 Scottish Stereotyping, Highlandism, and Stevenson in Young Folks Paper
Part IV Politics and Activism
Introduction
21 ‘I address you as owners’: The Victorian Child, the Missionary Ship, and the Juvenile Missionary Magazine
22 Conservationists or Conquerors? Children, Nature, and the Environment in the Juvenile Companion and Sunday School Hive (1845–1888)
23 ‘Everyone is requested to do all they can to get this paper taken in’: The Pleasures and Duties of Children’s Charity in the Waifs and Strays Society
24 ‘The whole world is unquiet’: Imperial Rivalry and Global Politics in the London Pupil Teachers’ Association Record
25 ‘Sober Soldiers’: How Children’s Temperance Magazines Won the First World War
26 ‘Inspire the Communist rebel spirit in the young people of our class’: An Overview of Communist Children’s Periodicals in Britain, 1917–1929
27 Wild Nature, Ecoliteracy, and Activism in Children’s Environmental Periodicals
Part V Girlhoods and Boyhoods
Introduction
28 Gendering Physical Activity and Sport in the Girl’s Own Paper and Boy’s Own Paper
29 ‘Young film friends’: Gendering Children’s Film Culture in Interwar Film Periodicals
30 ‘What becomes of the colored girl?’: Shifts in the Culture of Black Girlhood within the Brownies’ Book
31 Mid-Century Models: Postwar Girls’ Comics, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning
32 ‘A power in the home’: The Rise of the Teenage Girl Magazine and the Teen Girl Reader in Australia and the USA
33 ‘My friend really loves history . . . can she look at that really old Jackie?’ Contemporary Girls Encountering Historical Periodicals for Girls
Notes on Contributors
Index
Plate
Downloaded on 1.6.2024 from https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781399506663-023/html
Scroll to top button