Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:James Aaron Green, Ulla Kriebernegg (Editor), Heike Hartung (Editor)Series:Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later LifePublish date:1/8/2026Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350374713ISBN-10:1350374717UPC:9781350374713Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SC0GADFY6D
Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War
In this major new study, James Aaron Green provides the first account of literary thought experiments published from 1878 to 1918 that speculate on the prospect of radically longer lives.
Green argues that these fictions helped negotiate the emergent experiences and meanings of age and aging during years when long-established norms were being eroded and supplanted. By recovering fictions by...Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350374713ISBN-10:1350374717UPC:9781350374713Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SC0GADFY6D
James Aaron Green received his PhD from the University of Exeter in 2019 and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, from 2021-24, working on a project funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). He has been widely published in age and aging studies, nineteenth-century popular fiction, and game studies. His first monograph, Sensation Fiction and Modernity:...
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James Aaron Green, Ulla Kriebernegg (Editor), Heike Hartung (Editor)
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