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Constructing the “Scientific” Child in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Children’s Periodicals
While the influence of classic Confucian texts such as The Twenty-Four Exemplars of Filial Piety, One Hundred Surnames, Thousand-Character Text, and...
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“little conversations”: Child Communities and Political Agency in the Writing of Frederick Douglass
This first part of this chapter spotlights Frederick Douglass’s treatment of children as historical actors and groups of children as political...
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“Being Editors”: Childhood Over Time
The popularity of periodical literature in the nineteenth century made textual duration over time a frequent and familiar element of the reading...
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Feeding Dickens’s Dysfunctional Families: Advocating Social Surrogacy in The Adventures of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations
Almost every novel by Charles Dickens could be said to expose the ideological blinders we willingly wear to live within certain ideological state...
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Lindsey Collen: Transnational, Transoceanic Optimism
Although Lindsey Collen has not published an autobiography, her short memoir “The Indian Ocean as a Unifying Force: A Memoir” provides a glimpse into...
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Rhizomatic Perennials: Resilience and Survival in Kenyan Asian Memoirs
Neera Kapur-Dromson’s From Jelum to Tana (2007) and Parita Mukta’s Shards of Memory (2002) chronicle the determination and pioneering spirit of their...
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“Learning to Wear a Sari Is a Rite of Passage”: Shailja Patel’s Inventory of the Migrant Body in Migritude
This chapter introduces Patel’s Migritude as a body-shaped memoir whose self-discovery narration is harmonized by the saris she has inherited from...
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Ginzburg’s Worlds: The World-making Power of the Short Story
In his introduction to Un’assenza, a recent collection of short stories and memories by Natalia Ginzburg mostly published for the first time,...
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Age and Its Metaphors
This chapter explores metaphors of aging and dementia and begins with a survey of the existing research on age and dementia metaphors by scholars in...
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Finding the Right Wor(l)ds: Creative Writing as Aesthetic and Existential Practice in Later Life
There is an increasing interest in the application of creative writing in later life. While much of the literature has acknowledged that creative...
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Growing Older Without Children: Challenging the (Re)production Narrative for Older Women
Later life is often described as a women’s issue given their longer life expectancy, poorer overall health, higher odds of living alone or in care...
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Lyric: Self-Abnegation in the Sonnets of Clare and Smith
In this chapter I tackle the ‘quintessential Romantic mode’, the lyric (Michael O’Neill). I focus on one poetic genre that is often used in the...
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Philosophy: Eighteenth-Century Theories of Contingent Selfhood
In this chapter I provide the theoretical and historical background for the Romanticism of the contingent self. Eighteenth-century philosophers were...
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Women’s Bodies in Natalia Ginzburg’s Fiction
Though Natalia Ginzburg never recognized herself as a feminist, her positioning herself explicitly as a mother and an intellectual can be understood...
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Introduction: Strange Multiplicities
In this chapter I introduce the central concepts of Romanticism and the Contingent Self. A key problematic in Romantic literature is the ‘challenge...
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Natalia Ginzburg’s Essay “The Jews” and Its Trials
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine others hostage. In an ensuing shootout at...
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From Closet to Absence: Queering Family Roles and Gender Norms in Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino and Happiness, As Such
This chapter aims to compare Ginzburg’s approach to gender from her first careful depiction of “closeted” characters such as Valentino, Kit, and...
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Born Untranslatable? On the Translation, Reception and Transnational Circulation of Ginzburg’s Family Lexicon
This chapter aims to analyze the translation, circulation and reception of Family Lexicon mainly in the Swedish context, which is representative of...
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Topographies of Trauma, Loss, and Mourning in Natalia Ginzburg’s Early Works
This chapter draws on trauma studies and theories of spatiality to chart the topographies of trauma, loss, and mourning in Natalia Ginzburg’s five...
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Age in Contemporary Drama and Performance: The Value of Considering Theatrical Time
This chapter addresses the sub-field of theater and age studies, highlighting the value of analytic approaches that consider how a play functions in...