Books for children, books for adults : age and the novel from Defoe to 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 nove...
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| বিন্যাস: | Licensed eBooks |
| ভাষা: | ইংরেজি |
| প্রকাশিত: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=696279 |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | "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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| দৈহিক বর্ননা: | 1 online resource |
| গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জী: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| আইসবিএন: | 9781139871136 1139871137 9781107262201 1107262208 9781139865418 1139865412 9781139868983 1139868985 9781306498227 1306498228 9781107649262 1107649269 9781107048546 1107048540 |