The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging
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This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the growing field of literary age studies and points to new directions in scholarly research. Divided into four sections, the volume reflects the current conversations in the field: intersections and intersectionalities, traveling concepts, methodological innovations, and archival inquiries. It encompasses the spectrum of critical approaches that literary age studies scholars employ, from environmental studies and postcolonial theory to critical race theory and queer studies. While close reading continues to be a mainstay of literary criticism, the handbook highlights alternative tools and routes in both data elicitation and analysis. The final part of the book shows the burgeoning interest in the field from literary scholars across historical periods, extending the scope of literary age studies beyond contemporary texts. This is an essential reference work for advanced students and scholars of literary studies, gerontology, age/aging studies, interdisciplinary studies and cultural studies.
This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the growing field of literary age studies and points to new directions in scholarly research. Divided into four sections, the volume reflects the current conversations in the field: intersections and intersectionalities, traveling concepts, methodological innovations, and archival inquiries. It encompasses the spectrum of critical approaches that literary age studies scholars employ, from environmental studies and postcolonial theory to critical race theory and queer studies. While close reading continues to be a mainstay of literary criticism, the handbook highlights alternative tools and routes in both data elicitation and analysis. The final part of the book shows the burgeoning interest in the field from literary scholars across historical periods, extending the scope of literary age studies beyond contemporary texts. This is an essential reference work for advanced students and scholars of literary studies, gerontology, age/aging studies, interdisciplinary studies and cultural studies.
Surveys the growing field of literary age studies Explores intersections and intersectionalities, traveling concepts, methodological innovations and archival inquiries Encourages further research on age, aging and ageism in literary works and literary practices across historical periods,
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
Themen in »The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging«
Ageing Aging Age studies Literary studies Old age Environmental studies Queer theory Critical race theory Cultural geography Digital humanities Disability studies Ageism Nineteenth century Eighteenth century Twentieth century
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"The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging, edited by Valerie Lipscomb and Aagje Swinnen, is not only a deep, wide contribution to age studies in the humanities but a much-needed book. It forcefully demonstrates that the field is vibrant and evolving, by bringing together essays from the field’s most exciting thinkers and important innovators."
–Devoney Looser, Arizona State University.
"This lively, important collection marks a pivotal moment in age studies. Established scholars have demonstrated over the past couple decades that reading literature skillfully can help us understand aging and that understanding aging can help us read literature. Lipscomb and Swinnen have invited a new cohort of emerging scholars to join those path builders to show that the expansive field has arrived and is thriving. The resulting array of topics and approaches—broadening from close reading to socially embedded reading practices—illustrates how literary studies is at the leading edge of humanities at work in the world."
–Sally Chivers, Trent University.
As the editors intend, this handbook offers a ‘smorgasbord for literature lovers,’ a sensual as well as an intellectual experience, where we as readers can understand literary gerontology as a work-in-progress by being offered a wide spectrum of research on the subject in order to position ourselves in terms of our own life-course ‘in search of a more age-just future.’ Thus, The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging offers guidance to understand literary gerontological research as an ongoing process – a pathway – to engage with the literature presented in terms of our own experience of growing old. Experiencing aging through literary texts as socially and culturally determined makes this book meaningful for all ages, and not only for lovers of literature.
-Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz, Austria.
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