Adulthood and other fictions : American literature and the unmaking of age /

Adulthood and other fictions : American literature and the unmaking of age /

While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers and artists responded to the rise...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edelstein, Sari (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Adulthood in literature.
Age in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Society in literature.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • "May I never be a man" : immaturity in Melville's America
  • Peculiar forms of aging in the literature of US slavery
  • Little women, overgrown children, and the problem of female maturity
  • Over the hill and out of sight : locating old age in regionalism
  • Beyond mastery : undoing adulthood in the work of Henry James
  • Coda : the new old age.