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Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature - Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman (Hardcover)
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Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature - Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This study establishes age as a category of literary history,
delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre.
Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden
emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the
study highlights how the changing experience of ageing is shaped by
that of gender. By reading the Bildungsroman as a 'coming of age'
novel, the book asks how the telling of a life in time affects
individual age narratives. Bringing together the different
perspectives of age and disability studies, the book argues that
illness is already an important issue in the Bildungsroman's
narratives of ageing. This theoretical stance provides new
interpretations of canonical novels, visiting authors such as
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane
Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Samuel Beckett, and Jonathan
Franzen. Drawing on the link between age and illness in the
Bildungsroman's age narratives, the genre of 'dementia narrative'
is presented as one of the directions which the Bildungsroman takes
after its classical period. Applying these theoretical perspectives
to canonical novels of the nineteenth century and to the new genre
of 'dementia narrative', the volume also provides new insights into
literary and genre history. This book introduces a new theoretical
approach to cultural age studies and offers a comprehensive
analysis of the connection between narratology, literary theory,
gender and age studies.
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