Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Growing Old with the Welfare State

Eight British Lives

Av Nick Hubble, Jennie Taylor, Philip Tew

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Beskrivning

The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed. Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed by increasingly dated images and narratives.Growing Old with the Welfare State challenges these stereotypes by bringing together eight previously unpublished stories of ordinary British people born between 1925 and 1945 to show contemporary ageing in a new light. These biographical narratives, six of which were written as part of the Mass Observation Project, reflect on and compare the experience of living in two post-war periods of social change, after the first and second world wars. In doing so, these stories, along with their accompanying contextual chapters, provide a valuable and accessible resource for social historians, and expose both historical and contemporary views of age and ageing that challenge modern assumptions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2019-05-16
Mått: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt: 422 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 176
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781350033108

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Nick Hubble is Reader in English at Brunel University, UK. He has published extensively on contemporary literature and culture and is the author of Mass Observation and Everyday Life (2010).Jennie Taylor completed her PhD in History at the University of Sydney, Australia, and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Brunel University, UK. She has published on Mass Observation and leisure.Philip Tew is Professor of English at Brunel University, UK. He has published numerous books, including Zadie Smith (2009), Writers Talk (2008), and Well Done God! Selected Prose and Drama of B. S. Johnson, (2013).

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The eight autobiographies are very rich in detail, exploring poignant and tragic incidents in the authors’ lives as well as the aspects that provide them with joy or meaning ... Growing Old with the Welfare State will be of great importance to those working on experiences of ageing, citizenship, and welfare in Britain in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It will also be highly valuable to historians and sociologists of emotions, intergenerational relations, and time.

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