Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: The Difference That Time Makes
- 2 On Not Knowing How to Feel
- 3 Ageing in the Anthropocene: The View From and Beyond Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises
- 4 Age and Anachronism in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction
- 5 Grandpaternalism: Kipling’s Imperial Care Narrative
- 6 “I Could Turn Viper Tomorrow”: Challenging Reproductive Futurism in Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting
- 7 Critical Interests and Critical Endings: Dementia, Personhood and End of Life in Matthew Thomas’s We Are Not Ourselves
- 8 Self-Help in the Historical Landscape of Ageing, Dementia, Work and Gender: Narrative Duplicities and Literature in a “Changing Place Called Old Age”
- 9 Toying with the Spool: Happiness in Old Age in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
- Afterword: When Age Studies and Literary-Cultural Studies Converge: Reading “The Figure of the Old Person” in an Era of Ageism
- Index
Notes on Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: The Difference That Time Makes
- 2 On Not Knowing How to Feel
- 3 Ageing in the Anthropocene: The View From and Beyond Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises
- 4 Age and Anachronism in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction
- 5 Grandpaternalism: Kipling’s Imperial Care Narrative
- 6 “I Could Turn Viper Tomorrow”: Challenging Reproductive Futurism in Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting
- 7 Critical Interests and Critical Endings: Dementia, Personhood and End of Life in Matthew Thomas’s We Are Not Ourselves
- 8 Self-Help in the Historical Landscape of Ageing, Dementia, Work and Gender: Narrative Duplicities and Literature in a “Changing Place Called Old Age”
- 9 Toying with the Spool: Happiness in Old Age in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
- Afterword: When Age Studies and Literary-Cultural Studies Converge: Reading “The Figure of the Old Person” in an Era of Ageism
- Index
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- Literature and Ageing , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020