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During a global pandemic, with millions of lives lost—and with those losses often shamefully minimized in the popular press on…
During a global pandemic, with millions of lives lost—and with those losses often shamefully minimized in the popular press on…
This article analyzes the writing of American psychologist, G. Stanley Hall (1846-1924), on the subject of his own old age…
Anna Seward (1742-1809) was fifty-five years old when she began assembling and revising her extensive correspondence for publication. Her decision…
This article investigates narratives of growing up in Prince Peerless: A Fairy Folk Story Book (1886), a collection of fairy tales by a…
In 1999, the art historian Linnea S. Dietrich described the subject of age in the visual arts as “uncharted territory”…
Dickens’s late fiction repeatedly associates midlife masculinity with a cluster of linked anxieties: concerns over bodily decline, domestic and professional…
Aging Face: “an object of disgust” This article reads the concept of aging as an essential narrative contrivance of Persuasion (1817) employed…
The articles which feature in this special issue of Age, Culture, Humanities extend a conversation which began at the conference ‘Narratives of…
In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, Carol Shields asserts that “the only plot that really interests [her is] … the arc…
Released within months of each other in 2012, Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror and Rupert Sanders’Snow White and the Huntsman both adapt the…