'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books : : A Comparative Study of Four National Literary Traditions / / Jean Kommers.

• Superior document: Studia Imagologica ; 31
• VerfasserIn: Kommers, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Imagologica ; 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 pages)

This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature.

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.