Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing
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Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing

Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 27, No. 1/2020

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Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing

Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 27, No. 1/2020

About this book

R. Troschitz: Why Age Matters (and Should Be of Concern to Cultural Studies) – M. Gürtner: Towards a Room of Her Own. 'Dialogue Spaces' and the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Times – Ö. Sarica: "You're getting too bloody old for this". Female Detectives and Representations of Ageing in British Crime Drama – J. Dolan: Ageing Stardom. The 'Economy of Celebrity' and the Gendering of the 'Third Age Imaginary' – S. Strauß: Visualising Memory Loss. Contemporary Portraiture and the Politics of Representation – C. Gilleard: Pain, Suffering and Abjection in the Fourth Age – Reviews – M. Morganroth Gullette: Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People – H. Hartung: Embodied Narration. Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture – S. Francescato / R. Maierhofer / V. Minghetti / E.-M. Trinkaus: Senior Tourism. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling – B. Black: Hotel London. How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories – C. Flotmann-Scholz / A. Lienen: Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures – S. Frenzel / B. Neumann: Ecocriticism. Environments in Anglophone Literatures

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Why Age Matters (and Should Be of Concern to Cultural Studies)
  5. Towards a Room of Her Own ‘Dialogue Spaces’ and the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Times
  6. “You’re getting too bloody old for this” Female Detectives and Representations of Ageingin British Crime Drama
  7. Ageing Stardom The ‘Economy of Celebrity’ and the Gendering of the ‘Third Age Imaginary’
  8. Visualising Memory Loss Contemporary Portraiture and the Politics of Representation
  9. Pain, Suffering and Abjection in the Fourth Age
  10. Reviews
  11. Margaret Morganroth Gullette (2017), Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People
  12. Heike Hartung, ed. (2018), Embodied Narration. Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture
  13. Simone Francescato, Roberta Maierhofer, Valeria Minghetti & Eva-Maria Trinkaus, eds. (2017), Senior Tourism. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling
  14. Barbara Black (2019), Hotel London. How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
  15. Christina Flotmann-Scholz & Anna Lienen, eds. (2019), Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures
  16. Sonja Frenzel & Birgit Neumann, eds. (2017), Ecocriticism. Environments in Anglophone Literatures
  17. Addresses of Contributors
  18. Back Cover