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Age and Aesthetics in James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother (1871)
In 1999, the art historian Linnea S. Dietrich described the subject of age in the visual arts as “uncharted territory”…
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Retrospection, Regret, and Contingency in Dickens’s Late Midlives
Dickens’s late fiction repeatedly associates midlife masculinity with a cluster of linked anxieties: concerns over bodily decline, domestic and professional…
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Aging Faces and Gowland’s Lotion in Austen’s Persuasion (1817)
Aging Face: “an object of disgust” This article reads the concept of aging as an essential narrative contrivance of Persuasion (1817) employed…
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Narratives of Aging in the Long Nineteenth Century: An Introduction
The articles which feature in this special issue of Age, Culture, Humanities extend a conversation which began at the conference ‘Narratives of…
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How old is Miss Havisham? Age and Gender Performances in Great Expectations and Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, released in 1950, laid bare the intricacies of filmmaking from a significantly cynical point of view….
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Beyond Prosthetic Memory: Posthumanism, Embodiment, and Caregiving Robots
Literary and cinematic speculations about the future of care, read in tandem with the rising prominence of actual robotic caregivers,…
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Aging, Embodiment, and the Somatic Turn
Embodiment versus Corporeality In any approach toward the cultural representation of age and aging, the body figures as an important,…