Adulthood and Other Fictions
American Literature and the Unmaking of Age
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2019. január 10.
- ISBN 9780198831884
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem224 oldal
- Méret 224x147x18 mm
- Súly 436 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 16 Illustrations 0
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This volume explores the idea of age in American literature over the course of the nineteenth century and examines how writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James used literature as a space to imagine alternative ideas about aging and to challenge conventional definitions of adulthood.
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While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological age in social and political life. Over the course of the century, age was added to the census; schools were organized around age groups; birthday cards were mass-produced; geriatrics became a medical specialty. Adulthood and Other Fictions reads American literature as a rich, critical account of this modern culture of age, and it examines how our most well-known writers registered?and often resisted?age expectations, particularly as they applied to women and people of color.
More than simply adding age to the list of identity categories that have become de rigueur sites of scholarly attention, Adulthood and Other Fictions argues that these other measures of social location (race, gender, sexuality, class) are largely legible through the seemingly more natural and essential identity defined by age. That is, longstanding cultural ideals about maturity and development anchor ideologies of heterosexuality, race, nationalism, and capitalism, and in this sense, age rhetoric serves as one of our most pervasive disciplinary discourses. Writers including Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James anticipated the ageism of our moment, but they also recognized how age norms both structure and limit the lives of individuals at all points on the age continuum. Ultimately, the volume argues for an intersectional understanding of age that challenges the celebration of independence and autonomy imbricated in US fantasies of adulthood and in American identity itself.
Adulthood and Other Fictions represents a learned, rigorous, and eloquent theorization of age in America -- highly impressive in its own right, and conducive to future advances along the same line.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction
'May I Never Be a Man': Immaturity in Melville's America
Peculiar Forms of Aging in the Literature of US Slavery
Little Women, Overgrown Children, and the Problem of Female Maturity
Over the Hill and Out of Sight: Locating Old Age in Regionalism
Beyond Mastery: Undoing Adulthood in the Work of Henry James
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