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

            An internationally known 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 nonfiction books, Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America and Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife. Aged by Culture is taught in many courses, and quoted and discussed in age studies. 

             Her next book is called Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People. 
             Gullette is a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis.

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