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10 - The Ageing Body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2015

By
Elizabeth Barry
Edited by
David Hillman  and
Ulrika Maude
David Hillman
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Ulrika Maude
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature , pp. 132 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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Baars, Jan. Aging and the Art of Living. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blythe, Ronald. The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.Google Scholar
Chase, Karen. The Victorians and Old Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cole, Thomas R. The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Cole, Thomas R. et al., Handbook of the Humanities and Aging. New York: Springer, 2000.Google Scholar
Katz, Stephen. Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.Google Scholar
Said, Edward. On Late Style. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.Google Scholar
Small, Helen. The Long Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Waxman, Barbara Frey. From the Hearth to the Open Road: A Feminist Study of Aging in Contemporary Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Woodward, Kathleen. Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.Google Scholar
Woodward, Kathleen and Schwartz, Murray M.. Memory and Desire: Aging – Literature –Psychoanalysis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.Google Scholar
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. and Rossen, Janice, eds. Aging and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.Google Scholar

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