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180 pages
The Lutterworth Press
Language:
English
Paperback (May 2023)
ISBN-13 9780718897185
ISBN-10 0718897188
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ISBN-10 071889717X
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ISBN-13 9780718897161
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Subjects:
Literary Studies
Blasted with Antiquity
Old Age and the Consolations of Literature
by David Ellis
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 show more
   about the author

David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent and has published around twenty books on Shakespeare, leading figures of the Romantic era, and D.H. Lawrence. In 2012 he show more
   table of contents

List of Illustrations
Note on Referencing
1. Introduction
2. Retirement
3. Ageing, Decrepitude and the Wisdom of the Elders
4. Self-consciousness and Sex
5. Family Matters
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   reviews

"Among the many joys of this inspiringly high-spirited heart-to-heart with the literature of ageing, is the zest with which it seizes the opportunity of age to read again for pleasure, the better to enjoy show more
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