Višestruki odnosi i neočekivani ishodi: prvo stoljeće hrvatske dječje književnost iz vizure povijesti čitanja, knjige i djetinjstva
MULTIPLE RELATIONS AND UNEXPECTED RESULTS: THE FIRST CENTURY OF CROATIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF HISTORICAL READING, BOOKS AND CHI

Summary/Abstract: Following the advocacy of Roger Chartier and Robert Darnton for a dual historiographical and literary approach to the history of reading, in this article the author discusses the dominant supra-individual signifiers in children’s literature and the notions of childhood which are ascribed to them in the period from the end of the 18th century to the final decades of the 19th century, that is, from the beginning of the systemic production of books directed toward children in the Croatian language to the more increased production of specific and exclusively children’s literature. Selecting, documenting, and interpreting autobiographical texts and popular narratives, as well as para-textual (subheadings, epilogues, and so on) representations of children’s literature in this period, demonstrates the linguistic and class stratifications of the time, as well as fluidity in genre, media, and time period in Croatian literature in the 19th century, likewise in the multiple and always entangled (sometimes recurrent, and sometimes misplaced) relations between readers and books, praxis and perception and finally between past and present

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