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    Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 27, No. 1/2020
    Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 27, No. 1/2020
    Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 27, No. 1/2020
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    Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 27, No. 1/2020

    By Thomas Kühn

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    R. Troschitz: Why Age Matters (and Should Be of Concern to Cultural Studies) – M. Gürtner: Towards a Room of Her Own. ‘Dialogue Spaces’ and the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Times – Ö. Sarica: “You’re getting too bloody old for this”. Female Detectives and Representations of Ageing in British Crime Drama – J. Dolan: Ageing Stardom. The ‘Economy of Celebrity’ and the Gendering of the ‘Third Age Imaginary’ – S. Strauß: Visualising Memory Loss. Contemporary Portraiture and the Politics of Representation – C. Gilleard: Pain, Suffering and Abjection in the Fourth Age – Reviews – M. Morganroth Gullette: Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People – H. Hartung: Embodied Narration. Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture – S. Francescato / R. Maierhofer / V. Minghetti / E.-M. Trinkaus: Senior Tourism. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling – B. Black: Hotel London. How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories – C. Flotmann-Scholz / A. Lienen: Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures – S. Frenzel / B. Neumann: Ecocriticism. Environments in Anglophone Literatures
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKönigshausen & Neumann
    Release dateNov 30, 2020
    ISBN9783826080593
    Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 27, No. 1/2020

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