@inbook{34ed2d3048b24649bc9b59624862dec5,
title = "Literature and age",
abstract = "Characterising ageing as {\textquoteleft}the unacknowledged shadow{\textquoteright} in literary studies in an earlier work, in this chapter, I map the wealth of recent scholarship that seeks to move literary age studies from that shadowy position. Some scholars posit a {\textquoteleft}second wave{\textquoteright} of scholarship, moving from a focus on representation to a {\textquoteleft}more conceptual phase{\textquoteright} (Barry 2020, p. 6). But perhaps it is fairer to employ the metaphors of palimpsest and web to characterise this development of the field. This chapter maps that web, with a focus on genre, readers and writers, gender and sexuality, and the local and the global.",
keywords = "literature, age, ageing",
author = "Sarah Falcus",
year = "2026",
month = jan,
day = "30",
doi = "10.4324/9781003292227-49",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781032273075",
series = "Routledge International Handbooks",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "395--402",
editor = "Julia Twigg and Martin, \{Wendy \}",
booktitle = "Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology",
edition = "2nd",
}