Literature and ageing /
"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, a new science of senescence, the availability of state pensions, and other phenomena of recent history....
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2020.
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| Series: | Essays and studies (London, England : 1950)
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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.