Between Generations : Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature

University Press of Mississippi

Between GenerationsCollaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature\nAuthor(s): Victoria Ford Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496828248, 978-1496828248\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2019 Book Award from the Children's Literature [url] Generations is a multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a tradition of creative, collaborative partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. The intergenerational collaborations documented here provide the foundations for some of the most popular Victorian literature for children, from Margaret Gatty's Aunt Judy's Tales to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Examining the publication histories of both canonical and lesser-known Golden Age texts reveals that children collaborated with adu.