Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations

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Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations. / O'Sullivan, Emer.
Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. ed. / Emer O'Sullivan; Andrea Immel. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 51-70 (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature).

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Harvard

O'Sullivan, E 2017, Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations. in E O'Sullivan & A Immel (eds), Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8_3

APA

O'Sullivan, E. (2017). Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations. In E. O'Sullivan, & A. Immel (Eds.), Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day (pp. 51-70). (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8_3

Vancouver

O'Sullivan E. Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations. In O'Sullivan E, Immel A, editors, Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. p. 51-70. (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature). doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8_3

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