New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.

Some of the world's greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. New opportunities and challenges appea

Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and

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 psycho

The various norms and values of aging that have been created by humans in the course of history have been largely ignored by gerontologists, who are thought to