TY  - GEN
T1  - Books for children, books for adults : age and the novel from Defoe to James
A1  - Michals, Teresa, 1963-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn871258198
AB  - "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"--
CN  - PR851 .M53 2014eb
SN  - 9781139871136
SN  - 1139871137
SN  - 9781107262201
SN  - 1107262208
SN  - 9781139865418
SN  - 1139865412
SN  - 9781139868983
SN  - 1139868985
SN  - 9781306498227
SN  - 1306498228
SN  - 9781107649262
SN  - 1107649269
SN  - 9781107048546
SN  - 1107048540
KW  - English fiction : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - English fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American fiction : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Books and reading : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Books and reading : United States : History.
KW  - Fiction : Appreciation : History.
KW  - Children's literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Adulthood in literature.
KW  - Children in literature.
KW  - Roman anglais : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman anglais : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman américain : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman américain : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Livres et lecture : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire.
KW  - Roman : Appréciation : Histoire.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Adulthood in literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Children in literature
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Fiction : Appreciation
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - Alter
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Kinderliteratur
KW  - Leser
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Engelska romaner : historia.
KW  - Amerikanska romaner : historia.
KW  - Böcker och läsning : historia.
KW  - Skönlitteratur för mellanåldern : historia.
KW  - Romaner : mottagande : historia.
KW  - Barn i litteraturen.
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - dissertations.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
KW  - Academic theses.
KW  - Thèses et écrits académiques.
ER  -