Blasted with antiquity : old age and the consolations of literature /
Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a literary background have tackled the subject, they have largely done so through what are known as period s...
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Cambridge, UK :
Lutterworth Press,
[2023].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Retirement
- Ageing, decreptitude and the wisdom of elders
- Self-consciousness and sex
- Family matters
- Leaving one's mark
- Will power
- Nostalgia
- Taking stock
- Doctoring and dying
- Ending up
- Postscript: on the 'stages of life.'