Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel - Softcover

Gullette, Margaret Marganroth

 
9781504029612: Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel

Synopsis

“Discovering the midlife progress novel, Gullette finds in recent fiction a pervasive tension between decline and a new ideology of aging. Appropriately, she invites the reader to join the writers in their therapeutic discourse.” —Rosemary Franklin, American Literature.
 
“[This] book certainly makes you think. What is it that can happen in middle age to make it, as it is for many people, the clearest and sweetest time of life?” —Frank Conroy, The New York Times

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About the Author

A pioneer in age studies and one of the most influential cultural critics on middle ageism and ageism, Margaret Morganroth Gullette is also the author of the prize-winning Agewise, Aged by Culture, and Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife. She is a resident scholar in women’s studies at Brandeis.
 

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ISBN 10:  0595091229 ISBN 13:  9780595091225
Publisher: iUniverse, 2000
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