Aging and Gender in Literature

by Wyatt-Brown, Anne M.; Rossen, Janice

• ISBN13: 9780813914312
• ISBN10: 0813914310
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

By adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class, this innovative volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary creativity and psychological development and to examine how individual writing careers begin to change in middle age.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Aging, Gender, and Creativity	p. 1
Theories of Creativity, Aging, and Gender
Creativity, Aging, Gender: A Study of Their Intersections, 1910-1935	p. 19
Another Model of the Aging Writer: Sarton's Politics of Old Age	p. 49
Suicide and the Illusion of Closure: Aging, Depression, and the Decision to Die	p. 61
Late Theory, Late Style: Loss and Renewal in Freud and Barthes	p. 82
Against the Dying of the Light: Death and Creativity
Lethal Brevity: Louise Bogan's Lyric Career	p. 105
The Virgin and the Gipsy: Rewriting the Pain	p. 121
The Origins of Late Style
Self-Representation and Memorials in the Late Poetry of Swift	p. 141
The Liberation of Mourning in Elizabeth Bowen's The Little Girls and Eva Trout	p. 164
Montherlant and the Problem of the Aging Pederast	p. 187
Oh What a Paradise It Seems: John Cheever's Swan Song	p. 204
The Phenomenology of Aging
Quod Temptabam Scribere Versus Erat: Ovid in Exile	p. 229
Colette: Rewriting the Script for the Aging Woman	p. 242
Being Old: The Example of Dorothy Richardson	p. 258
Old-Age Freedom in Josephine Miles's Late Poems, 1974-79	p. 271
Aging, Gender, and the Deterioration of Southern Family Values in the Stories of Peter Taylor	p. 296
"Keeping Our Working Distance": Maxine Kumin's Poetry of Loss and Survival	p. 314
Abbreviations	p. 341
Bibliography	p. 343
Contributors	p. 365
Index	p. 369
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