Nina Christensen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nina Christensen is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2212-9006
Title
Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters
Edited by Charlotte Appel, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby
This is the first study to take a comprehensive look at transnational children’s literature in the period before 1900. The chapters examine what we mean by ‘children’s literature’ in this period, as well as what we mean by ‘transnational’ in the context of children’s culture. They investigate who… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 15] 2023. xv, 388 pp.
Articles
2023 Introduction Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 8. Playful reading: Transnational interactions between books, toys, and other media in Northern Europe around 1830 Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby (eds.), pp. 176–197 | Chapter
This chapter concerns the transnational character of children’s literary culture across media and genres in Danish and German homes around 1830. Furthermore, it addresses the interaction between reading and playing in and around books. German author Karl Blumauer’s Der kleine Robert und sein… read more
2015 Chapter 7. Rupture. Ideological, aesthetic, and educational transformations in Danish picturebooks around 1933 Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 171–188 | Article
This chapter discusses the sources of influence on progressive Danish picturebooks from the 1930s and 1940s. The impact of Russian avant-garde books is described, followed by a discussion of the terms ‘Modernism’ and ‘avant-garde’. Four picturebooks are analyzed with a focus on new elements related… read more