Books for Children, Books for Adults

Teresa Michals

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2016
Pages: 290
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.61in - 0.86lb
EAN: 9781107649262
Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Michals, Teresa: - Teresa Michals is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at George Mason University, Virginia.

Praise for this book

"Books for Children, Books for Adults is a detailed, and ... engaging blend of publishing and reception history, textual analysis and cultural context."
Alexandra Lawrie, The Times Literary Supplement