Adulthood and other fictions : American literature and the unmaking of age / Sari Edelstein.

First edition.

9780191869716 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

PN56.O4

810.9352409034

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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