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Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James Michals, Teresa (George Mason University, Virginia)
Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James
Michals, Teresa (George Mason University, Virginia)
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.
284 pages, 3 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 6, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107048546 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 284 |
| Dimensions | 231 × 157 × 21 mm · 658 g (Weight (estimated)) |
| Language | English |