{"product_id":"literature-and-ageing-hardcover","title":"Literature and Ageing - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Barry\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMargery Vibe Skagen\u003c\/b\u003e (With), \u003cb\u003eDavid Amigoni\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 ageing, challenging the idea that old age is an uneventful time outside of the parameters of literary narrative. Instead, age increasingly \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e 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 ageing - the cultural imaginary that determines the way that society sees old age.\u003cbr\u003e 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 both England and North America, and including texts by Margaret Drabble, Samuel Beckett and Matthew Thomas - ask how we \u003cem\u003efeel\u003c\/em\u003e about ageing - so often the determinant of how we \u003cem\u003ethink\u003c\/em\u003e about it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH BARRY is Reader in English at the University of Warwick; she has written widely on modernist literature, medical humanities and age studies. MARGERY VIBE SKAGEN is Associate Professor in French Literature at the University of Bergen. As a Baudelaire specialist, she works at the interface of literature and other knowledge areas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Contributors: David Amigoni, Elizabeth Barry, Sarah Falcus, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Jacob Jewusiak, Peter Svare Valeur, Margery Vibe Skagen, Helen Small, Emily Timms, Kathleen Woodward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 231\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49721282396419,"sku":"9781843845713","price":102.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/7422\/7459\/files\/3uNDjvoxxI9781843845713.webp?v=1790608936","url":"https:\/\/theclubhousestore.com\/products\/literature-and-ageing-hardcover","provider":"The Club House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}