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Literature and ageing /

New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature. The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: an experience shaped by changes in longevity,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Barry, Elizabeth, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2020.
Series:Essays and studies (London, England : 1950)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Difference that Time Makes / Elizabeth Barry and Margery Vibe Skagen
  • On Not Knowing How to Feel / Helen Small
  • Ageing in the Anthropocene: The View From and Beyond Margaret Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises / Kathleen Woodward
  • Age and Anachronism in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction / Sarah Falcus
  • Grandpaternalism: Kipling's Imperial Care Narrative' / Jacob Jewusiak
  • "I Could Turn Viper Tomorrow": Challenging Reproductive Futurism in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting / Emily Kate Timms
  • Critical Interests and Critical Endings: Dementia, Personhood and End of Life in Matthew Thomas's We Are Not Ourselves / Elizabeth Barry
  • Self-Help in the Historical Landscape of Ageing, Dementia, Work and Gender: Narrative Duplicities and Literature in a "Changing Place Called Old Age" / David Amigoni
  • Toying with the Spool: Happiness in Old Age in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape / Peter Svare Valeur
  • Afterword: When Age Studies and Literary-Cultural Studies Converge: Reading "The Figure of the Old Person" in an Era of Ageism / Margaret Morganroth Gullette.