1st Edition
Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman
By Heike Hartung
Copyright 2016
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction: Concepts of Age and the "Burden Narrative" of Ageing 2. Early Stages of the Bildungsroman: Age, Gender and Illness in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 3. A Mature Genre: Ageing Processes in the Nineteenth-Century Bildungsroman 4. The Limits of Development? Old Age and Dementia Narrative 5. Concluding Remarks
Biography
Heike Hartung is an independent scholar in English Studies, associated as research fellow and university lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and the University of Graz, Austria.
