Jacob Jewusiak

TL;DR: The authors argue that the formal disappearance of aging from the English novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old, which corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that William Morris's work displaces an implicit youthful bias in theories of utopia and socialism by making senescence a structuring principle of his ideal society.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the relationship between the temporality of decision making and the determination of social context in Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), The Woo...

TL;DR: Moretti et al. as discussed by the authors claim that the development of modernity is primarily concerned with the maturation of youth, and that overcoming the dangers of adolescent aggression and sexual energy merely results in the necessity, the discipline, the sorrow of maturity, and so it must be overcome in the process of achieving a stable maturity.

TL;DR: In this article , a senescent environmentalism attunes itself to the contingency of non-linear and non-teleological futures: drawing together the delicacy of ecosystems on the brink with the structural precarity of older people, queers, and people of color.