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Literature and ageing, edited by Elizabeth Barry with Margery Vibe Skagen for the English Association

Label
Literature and ageing, edited by Elizabeth Barry with Margery Vibe Skagen for the English Association
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Literature and ageing
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Elizabeth Barry with Margery Vibe Skagen for the English Association
Series statement
Essays and studies, 2020, volume seventy-three
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