Creativity in Later Life

David Amigoni is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Enterprise and Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University, UK Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King’s College London, UK; and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre

• IntroductionDavid Amigoni and Gordon McMullan The challenges of late-life creativity Imagining otherwise: the disciplinary identity of gerontologyRuth Ray The singing voice in late lifeJane Manning Creative ageing: the social policy challengeSusan Hogan and Emily Bradfield Rethinking late style Turner’s last works and his critics Sam Smiles Constructing a late style for David Bowie: old age, late-life creativity, popular cultureGordon McMullan An ‘old man in the dimming world’: Theodor Adorno, Derek Walcott and a defence of the idea of late style Robert Spencer The varieties of late-life creativity Late-life creativity: assessing the value of theatre in later lifeMiriam Bernard and Michelle Rickett Late-life creativity: methods for understanding arts- generated social capital in the lives of older people Jackie Reynolds ‘It’s play, really, isn’t it?’: dress, creativity, old ageHannah Zeilig and Anna-Marie Almira Visual diaries, creativity and everyday life Wendy Martin and Katy Pilcher Self, civic engagement and late-life creativityAngela Glendenning Narrating dementia A critical narrative on late-life creativity and dementia: integrating citizenship, embodiment and relationalityPia Kontos and Alisa Grigorovich ‘The artistry of it all’: narrating The Tempest, dementia and the mapping of identity in a Manchester extrincare housing schemeLiz Postlethwaite Terry Pratchett’s Living with Alzheimer’s as a case study in late-life creativityMartina Zimmerman Narratives as talking therapy: research with Sikh carers of a family member with dementia in Wolverhampton Karan Jutlla Old age, creativity and the late city ‘Work, work, work and full steam ahead’: Ian McKay and the conserving radicalism of the Gorton Visual Art Group, public artists in later lifeJohn Miles The late Peter Rice: late-style stories of ageing and the city in A Bright Past for Stoke on Trent David Amigoni