What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the Humanities
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part One -- The Tattered Web of Cultural Meanings -- The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old Age -- The Virtues and Vices of the Elderly -- The Meaning of Risk, Rights, and Responsibility in Aging America -- Legal Reform and Aging: Current Issues, Troubling Trends -- Victorian Morality in a New Key -- Part Two -- Subjectivity: Literature, Imagination, and Frailty -- Introduction -- Reminiscence and the Life Review: Prospects and Retrospects -- The Wizard of Pilgrimage, or What Color Is Our Brick Road? -- Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly -- Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly -- Frailty and Strength: The Dialectic of Aging -- Appendix: A Select Bibliography of Aging and Meaning -- Aging and Meaning: A Bibliographical Essay -- A Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index