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Adulthood and other fictions : American literature and the unmaking of age / Sari Edelstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edelstein, Sari, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Adulthood in literature.
- Age in literature.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- "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
- Coda : the new old age.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-256789-6
- 0-19-186971-6
- 0-19-256788-8
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