Introduction: Growing Old in Nineteenth-Century France: Texts, Fictions, and Representations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2024
Journal / Book Title
Growing Old in the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Fictions, and Representations, special issue of L’Esprit Créateur
Abstract
The introduction to this special issue about French fascination with the aging process provides an overview of cultural interest in this topic from the Second Empire to World War I. It sets the scene for other contributors' analysis of the ways in which nineteenth-century writers and scientists took up aging or aged figures to explore complex new social dynamics.
DOI
10.1353/esp.2024.a934190
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
1931-0234
Book Editor(s)
Elizabeth Emery and Florence Fix
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Emery, Elizabeth and Fix, Florence, "Introduction: Growing Old in Nineteenth-Century France: Texts, Fictions, and Representations" (2024). Department of World Languages and Cultures Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 91.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/91
Published Citation
Elizabeth Emery and Florence Fix, “Introduction: Growing Old in Nineteenth-Century France: Texts, Fictions, and Representations” (with Florence Fix). Growing Old in the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Fictions, and Representations, special issue of L’Esprit Créateur coedited with Florence Fix, 64:2 (summer 2024): 1-17.
