Book of Donmon Teith

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

This book describes the fundamental process of senescence, and reviews a new concept developed by a number of research groups that is based on cellular senescen

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

New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.

Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural disasters: images of the 'gray flood' and 'silver tsunami' imbue senescence with the destructive forc