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.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Rewriting the Law: The Anti-Comics Campaigns enter the Cold WarChapter 2. Taming the Ape Man: The Commission for Surveillance and Control Finds its VoiceChapter 3. The ‘Little Mickeys’ in the Cold War: Hachette and the Expansion of Disney’s Global EmpireChapter 4. The Hachette Fiction Factory: Making children’s books in the productivity eraChapter 5. Policing the Borders: Editorial Mediations on the Assembly LineBibliographyIndex

This book will ... be of interest to text/image scholars, as well as children’s literature specialists, and those working on specific authors and genre (including detective fiction and comics), nineteenth and especially twentieth-century cultural studies, law, censorship and translation/ adaptation studies.