Sari Edelstein

Adulthood and Other Fictions

American Literature and the Unmaking of Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831884
• ISBN-10: 0198831889
• Artikelnr.: 54469753

Autorenporträt

Sari Edelstein teaches in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing (2014), and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous academic journals, including American Literature, Legacy, ESQ, and Studies in American Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: 'May I Never Be a Man': Immaturity in Melville's America
2: Peculiar Forms of Aging in the Literature of US Slavery
3: Little Women, Overgrown Children, and the Problem of Female Maturity
4: Over the Hill and Out of Sight: Locating Old Age in Regionalism
5: Beyond Mastery: Undoing Adulthood in the Work of Henry James
Coda