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Aging Masculinity in the American Novel

By Alex Hobbs

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9781442266780 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 15, 2016, cover price $75.00

The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life

By Ann Burack-Weiss

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9780231151849 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 13, 2015, cover price $30.00

Writers and Age: Essays On and Interviews With Five Authors

Product Description: Since 1900, the average life expectancy in the developed world has almost doubled, from 45 to 80. "We are almost a new species," declared the English writer V.S. Pritchett, while pointing out that this means "most of us have to face the prospect of a long old age before we die...read more

By Esther Harriott

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9780786434398 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 31, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Since 1900, the average life expectancy in the developed world has almost doubled, from 45 to 80.

The Raven and the Falcon: Youth Versus Old Age in Medieval Arabic Literature

By Hasan Shuraydi

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9789004271609 | Brill Academic Pub, September 12, 2014, cover price $181.00

Aging and Old-age Style in Gunter Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser: The Mannerism of a Late Period

Product Description: Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people...read more

By Stuart Taberner

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9781571135780 | Camden House, December 2, 2013, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five.

9780312060916, titled "Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment" | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | also contains Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment | About this edition: This study focuses on themes and techniques of empowerment in the full range of produced plays by Caryl Churchill from 1960 to the present.

Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative Social Research

Product Description: This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing and demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency...read more

By Philip Tew

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9780230390935 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 12, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK.

(S)aged by Culture: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture

Product Description: Colonization has imposed drastic changes on indigenous societies in North America. This process has reverberated through cultural conceptions and constructions of social roles, particularly affecting the roles of elders and the old...read more

By Philipp Kneis (corporate author)

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9783631638538 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 5, 2013, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Colonization has imposed drastic changes on indigenous societies in North America.

As Time Goes by: Portraits of Age

Product Description: Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and alongside economics, psychology, history and sociology, literature too, through writers' consciousness and experience, can provide valuable insights into the attitudes and prejudices prevalent in society...read more

By Caroline Verdier (editor)

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9781443842457 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 1, 2013, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and alongside economics, psychology, history and sociology, literature too, through writers' consciousness and experience, can provide valuable insights into the attitudes and prejudices prevalent in society.

Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English: Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear

Product Description: How did Shakespeare and his contemporaries, whose works mark the last quarter century of Elizabeth I s reign as one of the richest moments in all of English literature, regard and represent old age? Was late life seen primarily as a time of withdrawal and preparation for death, as scholars and historians have traditionally maintained? In this book, Christopher Martin examines how, contrary to received impressions, writers and thinkers of the era working in the shadow of the kinetic, long-lived queen herself contested such prejudicial and dismissive social attitudes...read more

By Christopher Martin

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9781558499720, titled "Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear: Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear" | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: How did Shakespeare and his contemporaries, whose works mark the last quarter century of Elizabeth I s reign as one of the richest moments in all of English literature, regard and represent old age?

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9781558499737, titled "Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear: Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear" | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $27.95

Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, which he flatters himself formerly did him Noble Service

Product Description: Debunking patronising attitudes to ageing, this book ranges across issues from retirement rituals & the art of complaining to vengeance strategies & going out in style. Miller offers a novel way of thinking about growing old & how the indignities of old age might be experienced without entirely 'losing it'...read more

By William Ian Miller

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9780300188233 | Yale Univ Pr, August 29, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Debunking patronising attitudes to ageing, this book ranges across issues from retirement rituals & the art of complaining to vengeance strategies & going out in style.

Losing It: In Which An Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, Which he Flatters Himself Formerly Did Him Noble Service--A Plant, Tragi-Comical, Historical,

By William Ian Miller

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9780300171013 | Yale Univ Pr, October 25, 2011, cover price $30.00

The Long Life

Product Description: The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J...read more

By Helen Small

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9780199229932 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 11, 2007, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J.

Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative

Book Description: In the United States anti-aging is a multibillion-dollar industry, and efforts to combat signs of aging have never been stronger, or more lucrative. Although there are many sociological studies of aging and culture, there are few studies that examine the ways cultural texts construct multiple narratives of aging that intersect and sometimes conflict with existing social theories of aging...read more

By Amelia Defalco

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9780814211137 | Ohio State Univ Pr, February 8, 2010, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In the United States anti-aging is a multibillion-dollar industry, and efforts to combat signs of aging have never been stronger, or more lucrative.

9780814292112 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, February 8, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the United States anti-aging is a multibillion-dollar industry, and efforts to combat signs of aging have never been stronger, or more lucrative.

Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare

By Maurice Charney

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9780231142304 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 2009, cover price $35.00

The Victorians and Old Age

Product Description: Karen Chase examines old age as it was constructed in Victorian social and literary cultures. Beginning with the vexed relation between elderly people whose numbers and needs taxed the state which sought to identify, classify, and provide for them, she analyzes illuminating moments in narrative form, social policy, or cultural attitudes...read more

By Karen Chase

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9780199564361 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 10, 2009, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Karen Chase examines old age as it was constructed in Victorian social and literary cultures.

Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage

Product Description: This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old...read more

By Anthony Ellis

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9780754665786 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 5, 2009, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old.

Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic

By Albrecht Classen (editor)

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9783110195484 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, August 30, 2007, cover price $210.00

Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture

By Nina Taunton

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9780415324731 | Routledge, July 10, 2007, cover price $169.00

A History Of Old Age

By Pat Thane (editor)

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9780892368341 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, November 15, 2005, cover price $49.95

The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

Product Description: 'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, priests, the widowed and long-retired...read more

By Ronald Blythe

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9781848257023 | Canterbury Pr Norwich, June 6, 2014, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: 'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, priests, the widowed and long-retired.

9780151936380 | Harcourt, October 1, 1979, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The words of old people in an English village--a schoolmaster, a miner's mother, soldiers of the First World War, and others--and the words of those charged with their care are shared with the reader in poignant, recorded self-revelations

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9781853115929 | Canterbury Pr Norwich, January 31, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: 'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, priests, the widowed and long-retired.

9780140056631 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1980, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The words of old people in an English village--a schoolmaster, a miner's mother, soldiers of the First World War, and others--and the words of those charged with their care are shared with the reader in poignant, recorded self-revelations

The Wisdom of Eccentric Old Men: A Study of Type and Secondary Character in GaldÃ³s's Social Novels, 1870-1897

By Peter A. Bly

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9780773528024, titled "The Wisdom of Eccentric Old Men: A Study of Type and Secondary Character in GaldÃ³s's Social Novels, 1870-1897" | McGill Queens Univ Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $110.00

Old Age: Journey into Simplicity

Looks at ways Homer's 'Odyssey,' Shakespeare's 'King Lear' and 'The Tempest,' and T.S. Eliot's 'Little Gidding' deal with old age and suffering.

By Helen M. Luke, Thomas Moore (foreword by) and Barbara A. Mowat (introduced by)

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9780786260713 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2003), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Looks at ways Homer's 'Odyssey,' Shakespeare's 'King Lear' and 'The Tempest,' and T.

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9780609805909 | 1 edition (Three Rivers Pr, February 1, 2001), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Looks at ways Homer's 'Odyssey,' Shakespeare's 'King Lear' and 'The Tempest,' and T.

Stories of Aging

Product Description: This work reflects the growing interest within gerontology in fictional representations of old age. It is about stories of ageing - full-length novels with central characters who are in the later part of life (50+) and experiencing the process of ageing as they move into old age...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mike Hepworth

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9780335198542 | Open Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This work reflects the growing interest within gerontology in fictional representations of old age.

Stories of Ageing

Product Description: "Mike Hepworth appears to have read every British novel from the last quarter century that is worth reading about old people (or not so old people) and he has percipiently focused on what matters in each of them. On many of the debates that stir Age Studies (are cyborgs the answer to physical decline? Can selfhood survive dementia? What exactly is the use of reading about old age?) he has thought long and written pithily...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mike Hepworth

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9780335198535 | Open Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $61.95 | About this edition: "Mike Hepworth appears to have read every British novel from the last quarter century that is worth reading about old people (or not so old people) and he has percipiently focused on what matters in each of them.

Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective

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By Sara Munson Deats (editor) and Lagretta Tallent Lenker (editor)

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9780275964795 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 1999, cover price $122.00

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