Session Details

Monday, 28 December

250. Age and Affect: Fear, Denial, Fantasy

1:45–3:00 p.m., 305–306, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Age Studies

Presiding: Cynthia R. Port, Coastal Carolina Univ.

1. “Ghost World and the Spectral Affects of Adolescence,” Pamela Thurschwell, Univ. of Sussex

2. “‘You Heap of Confusion!’: Disgust and Elder Abuse in Victorian Literature,” Andrea Charise, Univ. of Toronto

3. “Depreciating with Age: Changing Responses to Aging in Tibet, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China,” D. Sabina Knight, Smith Coll.

4. “Assisted Living: Age and Affect,” Kathleen M. Woodward, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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