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. The co...

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Other Authors: Barry, Elizabeth, 1972- (Editor), Skagen, Margery Vibe (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York : D.S. Brewer, [2020]
Series:Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ; v. 73.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (page 201) and index. 
505 0 |t Introduction: The Difference that Time Makes /  |r Elizabeth Barry and Margery Vibe Skagen --  |t On Not Knowing How to Feel /  |r Helen Small --  |t Ageing in the Anthropocene: The View From and Beyond Margaret Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises /  |r Kathleen Woodward --  |t Age and Anachronism in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction /  |r Sarah Falcus --  |t Grandpaternalism: Kipling's Imperial Care Narrative' /  |r Jacob Jewusiak --  |t "I Could Turn Viper Tomorrow": Challenging Reproductive Futurism in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting /  |r Emily Kate Timms --  |t Critical Interests and Critical Endings: Dementia, Personhood and End of Life in Matthew Thomas's We Are Not Ourselves /  |r Elizabeth Barry --  |t Self-Help in the Historical Landscape of Ageing, Dementia, Work and Gender: Narrative Duplicities and Literature in a "Changing Place Called Old Age" /  |r David Amigoni --  |t Toying with the Spool: Happiness in Old Age in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape /  |r Peter Svare Valeur --  |t Afterword: When Age Studies and Literary-Cultural Studies Converge: Reading "The Figure of the Old Person" in an Era of Ageism /  |r Margaret Morganroth Gullette. 
520 |a 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. The collection considers the increasing prominence of stories of aging, challenging the idea that old age is an uneventful time outside of the parameters of literary narrative. Instead, age increasingly is the story. As the older population swells, political crises are construed as the old stealing from the young and the rights of older people are sacrificed to the economics of care, it becomes ever more important to think about and question, as literature does, the symbolic aspects of aging, the cultural imaginary that determines the way that society sees old age. The work in this volume explores age stories in relation to futurity, precarity and climate change. It brings to light narratives of resistance to colonial imperialism and reproductive futurism framed in terms of age, and tests the lived experience of growing old and the challenge it offers to individualistic conceptions of selfhood, work and care. The literary works examined, hailing from England, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, and including texts by Margaret Drabble, Samuel Beckett and Matthew Thomas, ask how we feel about aging, so often the determinant of how we think about it. 
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