Books for Children, Books for Adults - Age and the Novel From Defoe to James

Informationen zum Autor Teresa Michals is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at George Mason University, Virginia. Klappentext This book explores how ideas about age changed for novels and their readers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Rewriting Robinson Crusoe: age and the island; 3. Dating Pamela: Mr B., Goody Two-Shoes, and the age of consent; 4. Rational moralists, highland barbarians, and the taste for adventures; 5. Educating Dickens: Old Boys, Little Mothers, and school time; 6. 'The time of real amusement': Henry James and the cult of adulthood.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Michals, Teresa (George Mason University Michals, Michals Teresa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107048546
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04854-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Children's & teenage literature studies