{"product_id":"aging-moderns-9780231205443","title":"Aging Moderns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott Herring combines new archival research, interviews, and innovative literary analysis in a book that transforms the way we think about aging, modernism, and artistic production.  Eloquent, witty, and lucid, \u003ci\u003eAging Moderns \u003c\/i\u003eis also a great read. -- Rachel Adams, author of \u003ci\u003eRaising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith groundbreaking research and fierce dedication, Scott Herring gives us a modernism never seen before: flourishing decades after its supposed high point, featuring authors in late life unfazed by bodily afflictions. Still intensely experimental, this is a new and different avant-garde, all the more stunning for being unexpected. -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of \u003ci\u003eWeak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eAging Moderns, \u003c\/i\u003eScott Herring recasts the credo of modernist studies and urges us instead to “make it old.” This magnificent book makes a compelling and urgent case for how a focus on old age and aging challenges entrenched understandings of the period and its aesthetics. Grounded in dazzling archival research, \u003ci\u003eAging Moderns \u003c\/i\u003eis a profoundly ethical book that redefines collaboration, creativity, and, ultimately, the very conception of modernism. -- Sari Edelstein, author of \u003ci\u003eAdulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAging Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e challenges both the modernist cult of youth and a pervasive ageism in the culture. Arriving at late modernism via the later life of modernists, Herring rewrites literary history while taking his readers on a fascinating journey through archives and community centers. A remarkable demonstration of criticism as care. -- Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to being of interest to students and scholars of modernism, \u003ci\u003eAging Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eforces reflections on the barriers and opportunities of senior status toward a realization of critical age studies. * Choice Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing. * The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review Worldwide *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAging Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e offers the field an immensely readable approach to forgotten—and largely unknown—works by major literary and artistic figures of high modernism. * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Experimental Aging and American Modernism\u003cbr\u003e1. Djuna Barnes and the Geriatric Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003e2. The Special Collections of Samuel Steward\u003cbr\u003e3. Ivan Albright’s Anti-Antiaging Treatments\u003cbr\u003e4. Tillie Olsen and the Old-Old Left\u003cbr\u003e5. Queer Senior Living with Charles Henri Ford and Indra Bahadur Tamang\u003cbr\u003e6. The Harlem Renaissance as Told by “Lesbian Elder” Mabel Hampton\u003cbr\u003eCoda: \u003ci\u003eAfter Jacob Lawrence\u003c\/i\u003e at Iona Senior Services\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400367481175,"sku":"9780231205443","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231205443.jpg?v=1730470514","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aging-moderns-9780231205443","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}