Ageing, gender, and illness in anglophone literature: narrating age in the bildungsroman
Auteur :
Hartung, Heike
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367872724
Date de publication :
10 déc. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Reading the Bildungsroman as a 'coming of age' novel, the book brings together perspectives of age and disability study to provide new insights into literary and genre history, visiting canonical authors such a