Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing

R. Troschitz: Why Age Matters (and Should Be of Concern to Cultural Studies) – M. Gürtner: Towards a Room of Her Own. ‘Dialogue Spaces’ and the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Times – Ö. Sarica: “You’re getting too bloody old for this”. Female Detectives and Representations of Ageing in British Crime Drama – J. Dolan: Ageing Stardom. The ‘Economy of Celebrity’ and the Gendering of the ‘Third Age Imaginary’ – S. Strauß: Visualising Memory Loss. Contemporary Portraiture and the Politics of Representation – C. Gilleard: Pain, Suffering and Abjection in the Fourth Age – Reviews – M. Morganroth Gullette: Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People – H. Hartung: Embodied Narration. Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture – S. Francescato / R. Maierhofer / V. Minghetti / E.-M. Trinkaus: Senior Tourism. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling – B. Black: Hotel London. How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories – C. Flotmann-Scholz / A. Lienen: Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures – S. Frenzel / B. Neumann: Ecocriticism. Environments in Anglophone Literatures



Editors:

Ina Habermann, Englisches Seminar, Universität Basel.

Lucia Krämer, Anglistik, Cultural and Media Studies, Universität Passau.

Gerold Sedlmayr, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, TU Dortmund.

Claus-Ulrich Viol, Englisches Seminar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.



Reviews Editor:

Susanne Gruss, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.



Editorial Committee:

Sebastian Berg (Bochum), Nadine Boehm-Schnitker (Wuppertal), Georgia Christinidis (Rostock), Rainer Emig (Mainz), Christian Huck (Kiel), Jürgen Kamm (Passau), Stephan Karschay (Hamburg), Gabriele Linke (Rostock), Susanne Schmid (Berlin), Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock), Gesa Stedman (Berlin), Lena Steveker (Saarbrücken), Dirk Wiemann (Potsdam).



Advisory Board:

Simon Frith (Edinburgh), Richard Kilborn (Stirling), Bernhard Klein (Canterbury), Jürgen Kramer (Dortmund), Gerry Mooney (Glasgow), Gabriele Rippl (Bern), Roland Sturm (Erlangen)



Editors of this Issue:

Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Regensburg.

Joanna Rostek, Institut für Anglistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.

Ina Habermann, Englisches Seminar, Universität Basel.



Cover Design:

Cover image by Joanna Rostek and Martin Decker.