Books for Children, Books for Adults : Age and the Novel from Defoe to James
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107048540
ISBN-13
9781107048546
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 6th, 2014
Print length
284 Pages
Weight
54 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.10 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersChildren’s & teenage literature studiesChildren’s and teenage literature studies: general
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Tracing the emergence of different reading audiences, this groundbreaking study explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age readership eventually became children's literature, while others became adult novels. Spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it discusses authors including Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Charles Dickens and Henry James.
In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe''s Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children''s literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson''s Pamela, became adult novels. Michals considers how historically specific ideas about age shaped not only the readership of novels, but also the ways that characters are represented within them. Arguing that age is first understood through social status, and later through the ideal of psychological development, the book examines the new determination of authors at the end of the nineteenth century, such as Henry James, to write for an audience of adults only. In these novels and in their reception, a world of masters and servants became a world of adults and children.
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