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Aging and Gender in Literature - Studies in Creativity (Paperback)
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Aging and Gender in Literature - Studies in Creativity (Paperback)
Series: Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory S.
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By adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class,
this volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary
creativity and psychological development and to examine how
individual writing careers begin to change in middle age. The
editors have brought together original work by a range of scholars,
including Kathleen Woodward and Margaret Morganroth Gullette, the
two most influential theorists of ageing; Bertram Wyatt-Brown, the
historian at work on a major life-span study of the Percys of
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana; and a number of literary
scholars from classics, English and modern languages. The
contributors note that a culturally constructed "decline narrative"
has dominated literary theory for some time. Yet their research
indicates several different patterns of late-life writing, most of
which challenge these negative assumptions. Utilising the insights
of social psychologists, who have demonstrated that creativity
depends upon a fruitful interaction between individual talent and
the larger literary world, the contributors show that writers'
reactions to ageing are determined partly by cultural attitudes
toward gender. This book combines ageing theory with literary
analysis. It demonstrates that literature plays an important role
in the construction of gerontological theory and that ageing is as
important a category in literary analysis as gender, race, class
and sexual orientation. "Ageing and Gender in Literature" bridges
the long-standing gap between literature and social science and
demonstrates how enriching such an integration can be. Scholars of
literature, feminism, gerontology and anyone curious about the
development of creativity over the life course, should find this
book of interest.
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