TY - GEN N2 - This volume explores the idea of age in American literature over the course of the nineteenth century and examines how writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James used literature as a space to imagine alternative ideas about aging and to challenge conventional definitions of adulthood. AB - This volume explores the idea of age in American literature over the course of the nineteenth century and examines how writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James used literature as a space to imagine alternative ideas about aging and to challenge conventional definitions of adulthood. T1 - Adulthood and other fictions :American literature and the unmaking of age / AU - Edelstein, Sari, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PN56.O4 ID - 855913 KW - American literature KW - Adulthood in literature. KW - Age in literature. KW - Society in literature. SN - 9780191869716 TI - Adulthood and other fictions :American literature and the unmaking of age / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831884.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831884.001.0001 ER -