1st Edition
Growing Old in a Better World Age and Ageing in the Utopian Imagination
1. Introduction
Part 1: Old Age and Ageing in Early Modern Utopian Thought
2. Old Age in Medieval and Early Modern Times
3. Thomas More’s Utopia: A Haven for the Old?
4. Living the Long Life
5. Age, Authority and the Social Order
Part 2: Industry, Progress and Age
6. Growing Old in Industrial Times
7. Age and Ageing in the Utopian Worlds of Robert Owen and Charles Fourier
8. The Institutionalisation of the Life Course and the Pleasures of the Post-Work Life in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward
9. Growing Old in an Epoch of Rest: William Morris’ News from Nowhere
10. H. G. Wells, the Utopian Tradition and the Question of Age
Part 3: Disillusionment and New Utopian Desires
11. Ageing and Old Age in the 20th and 21st Centuries
12. Brave Old Age: Aldous Huxley’s Dystopian and Utopian Visions
13. New Dreams, New Age? Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
14. Contemporary Utopias and the Future of Ageing
15. Conclusions
Biography
Robert Troschitz is a cultural studies scholar whose research focuses on British cultural history, utopian literature and representations of ageing in popular culture. His previous books include Higher Education and the Student: From Welfare State to Neoliberalism (2017) and Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing (2020).
