Framing Ageing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research

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Bringing together established and emerging scholars of old age from the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as gerontologists and medical practitioners, this open access book both showcases new scholarship and provides new methods and concepts for ongoing conversations about old age as an object of analysis in contemporary culture. Cultural policy makers and scholars alike regularly describe a visibility crisis of old age, a consistent erasure or repression of images of older people from public view. Co-edited by an art historian and two literary scholars with a shared interest in memory, Framing Ageing examines the in/visibility of old age from a range of disciplinary angles, including philosophy, social history, comparative literature and anthropology. In doing so, in addition to examining literary texts, this volume carries out innovative analyses of visual material including sculpture, buildings, photographs, from fine art to amateur production and commercial images. Framing Ageing addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want to approach the urgent topic of old age in their work, mapping the intellectual state of the field and putting the most salient concepts in action. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

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This is an important collection that begins to establish what the editors call a lyric gerontology. It is an ambitious and highly interdisciplinary volume that brings together fields including psychology, literary studies and ethics. * Sarah Falcus, Reader in Contemporary Literature, University of Huddersfield, UK *

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Anne Fuchs is Professor and Director of the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin, Ireland. Julia Langbein is postdoctoral research fellow in Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Mary Cosgrove is Professor of German and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.