Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience. The Aesthetic

When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaki

Aging: How Aging Works, How We Reverse Aging, and Prospects for Curing Aging Diseases explains the process of aging beyond mere entropy, exposing it as a compli

Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and agei