{"product_id":"between-generations-victoria-ford-smith-9781496813374","title":"Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Children's Literature Association's 2019 Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween Generations\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAunt Judy's Tales\u003c\/i\u003e to Robert Louis Stevenson's \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e. Examining the publication histories of both canonical and lesser-known Golden Age texts reveals that children collaborated with adult authors as active listeners, coauthors, critics, illustrators, and even small-scale publishers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese literary collaborations were part of a growing interest in child agency evident in cultural, social, and scientific discourses of the time. \u003ci\u003eBetween Generations\u003c\/i\u003e puts these creative partnerships in conversation with collaborations in other fields, including child study, educational policy, library history, and toy culture. Taken together, these collaborations illuminate how Victorians used new critical approaches to childhood to theorize young people as viable social actors. Smith's work not only recognizes Victorian children as literary collaborators but also interrogates how those creative partnerships reflect and influence adult-child relationships in the world beyond books. \u003ci\u003eBetween Generations\u003c\/i\u003e breaks the critical impasse that understands children's literature and children themselves as products of adult desire and revises common constructions of childhood that frequently and often errantly resign the young to passivity or powerlessness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Ford Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496813375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496813374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Victoria Ford Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46617909133567,"sku":"9781496813374","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_749ef11c-7025-4116-b064-efcffc858e95.jpg?v=1740068661","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-generations-victoria-ford-smith-9781496813374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}