Books for children, books for adults: age and the novel from defoe to james
Auteur :
Michals, Teresa
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107048546
Date de publication :
6 mars 2014
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,8 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
540 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.