Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Control

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Dr Sophie Heywood (Associate Professor, University of Reading, UK)

Children’s Publishing in Cold War France

Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Control

Dr Sophie Heywood (Associate Professor, University of Reading, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
20 February 2025

Children's literature studies: general; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; The Cold War; Ethical issues: censorship; Publishing industry

Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated the country’s new context of surveillance and control.

Using extensive new multilingual archive material including legal and business records and US State Department files, Sophie Heywood traces both the history of the French Communist Party’s (PCF) and anti-comics activists’ efforts to prevent American ‘propaganda’ reaching the hands of children, and Hachette’s strategic and editorial responses. Children’s Publishing in Cold War France covers such events as the campaign waged against the global multi-media phenomenon Tarzan; the impact of Cold War tensions on Hachette’s publishing of Disney books and comics in French; and studies the translation of series fiction from Nancy Drew to The Famous Five, where self-censorship could be a radical and creative process.

Children’s Publishing in Cold War France presents a timely historical study of how states and political campaigners seek to control children’s access to culture, and the legacies of such conflicts.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Reading.

By: Dr Sophie Heywood (Associate Professor University of Reading UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350361560
ISBN 10: 1350361569
Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 20 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sophie Heywood is Associate Professor in French and a founding co-director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading, UK. She specializes in the history of comparative children’s literature and publishing. Her first monograph was a literary and publishing history of iconic French children’s author, the Comtesse de Ségur (2011). She has published numerous articles and book chapters in English and French in internationally rated history journals, international children’s literature publications. Her research has been funded by prestigious grant bodies including the Carnegie Trust, the Institute for Historical Research and the Leverhulme Trust.