| Description |
1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Cultural History Ser. ; v.102 |
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Routledge Studies in Cultural History Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing? -- 2 Narrative Configurations of Ageing and Time -- 3 Using Literary Sources in a World History of Ageing -- 4 Rêverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire -- 5 "By Nature Led": Old Age in William Wordsworth's Poem "Old Man Travelling" -- 6 Ageing and Creativity in Goethe's Last Works |
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7 Senescence at the Russian Fin-de-Siècle: On the Ageless and the Ageing Self of Lev Tolstoy -- 8 Taking Care of the Self: Ageing in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray -- 9 Thomas Hardy and the Question of Senescence -- 10 "I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrative -- 11 Solitude and Senescence: May Sarton's Sense of an Ending -- 12 French Female Literary Milestones in the History of Ageing -- 13 "Je suis vieux et très contemporain": Old Age and Modernity in the Works of Michel Houellebecq |
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14 Elderly People's Homes in Contemporary Literature: A New Old World by Mariusz Sieniewicz -- 15 An Ageing Woman's Dilemma: The Varieties of Silence in Merethe Lindstrøm's Novel Days in the History of Silence -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000383072 |
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1000383075 |
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