1st Edition
Cultural Histories of Ageing Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self
1. How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing?
Margery Vibe Skagen
2. Narrative Configurations of Ageing and Time
Jan Baars
3. Using Literary Sources in a World History of Ageing
David G. Troyansky
4. Rêverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire
Margery Vibe Skagen
5. "By Nature Led": Old Age in William Wordsworth’s Poem "Old Man Travelling"
Peter Svare Valeur
6. Ageing and Creativity in Goethe’s Last Works
Charlotte Lee
7. Senescence at the Russian Fin-de-Siècle: On the Ageless and the Ageing Self of Lev Tolstoy
Lillian Jorunn Helle
8. Taking Care of the Self: Ageing in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Michael Mack
9. Thomas Hardy and the Question of Senescence
Emanuela Ettorre and Adrian Tait
10. "I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrative
Svein Atle Skålevåg
11. Solitude and Senescence: May Sarton’s Sense of an Ending
George Rousseau
12. French Female Literary Milestones in the History of Ageing
Martine Boyer-Weinmann
13. "Je suis vieux et très contemporain": Old Age and Modernity in the Works of Michel Houellebecq
Agathe Novak-Lechevalier
14. Elderly People’s Homes in Contemporary Literature: A New Old World by Mariusz Sieniewicz
Hanna Serkowska
15. An Ageing Woman’s Dilemma: The Varieties of Silence in Merethe Lindstrøm’s Novel Days in the History of Silence
Nora Simonhjell
Biography
Margery Vibe Skagen is Associate Professor in French Literature at the University of Bergen.
