Theme and Content

This volume explores the theme of age and aging, uniquely combining personal reflections from literature professors with sound scholarly analysis of a range of fiction and poetry.

Contributors and Scope

Bringing together leading literary scholars, this collection of essays covers a range of writers and texts, representing both the canon and new voices.

Approach and Insights

By combining the chapter authors' expertise as literary and cultural critics with their own responses to novels, short stories and poems, the book offers new insights into the life trajectories made available to fiction and poetry readers through compelling narrative and vivid literary representation.