Imagining Ageing Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures (Edition 1)

What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature. The contributors examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seam...

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Other Authors: Concilio, Carmen (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
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