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Aging, Duration, and the English Novel - Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf (Hardcover)
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Aging, Duration, and the English Novel - Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of
gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a
wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses
these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a
descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at
once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novel argues that the formal
disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological
pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of
growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that
should be hidden - to improve one's chances on the job market or
secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long
novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress
and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.
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