Children’s Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach

Authors

Emily Bruce, University of Minnesota - MorrisFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

11-30-2023

Embargo Period

5-30-2025

Publication Title

The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to trace the development of children’s books on the European continent before the First World War, with an emphasis on the social, economic, and cultural institutions that shaped these traditions. I touch briefly on landmark titles and survey the scholarly literature about European publishing for children, which is both extensive and, for some regions, longstanding. For the sake of brevity, the geographic emphasis is on the better-documented German and French texts with occasional excursions north, south, and east.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture on November 30, 2023, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Childrens-Literature-and-Culture/Nelson-Wesseling-Wu/p/book/9781032103594

Rights

Copyright 2023

Recommended Citation

Bruce, Emily, "Children’s Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach" (2023). History Publications. 12.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/history/12

Primo Type

Book Chapter