Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel From Defoe to James by Teresa MichalsISBN: 9781107048546
Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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.