Literature and Ageing

New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.

List 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 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

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Elizabeth Barry, Margery Vibe Skagen

Summary

New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Barry, Margery Vibe Skagen
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Barry (Editor), Elizabeth (Author) Barry (Editor), Margery Vibe Skagen (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781843845713
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-571-3
• No. of pages: 231
• Dimensions: 223 mm x 145 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies