The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novel argues that the fo...(展开全部)

雷蒙德·威廉斯（Raymond Williams，1921-1988），英国卓越的小说家、社会理论家和文化评论家，在文化研究领域里影响深远。他关于政治文化、大众传媒与文学的著作在西方马克思主义文化与艺术评论领域做出了重大贡献。

雷蒙德·威廉斯（Raymond Williams，1921-1988），英国卓越的小说家、社会理论家和文化评论家，在文化研究领域里影响深远。他关于政治文化、大众传媒与文学的著作在西方马克思主义文化与艺术评论领域做出了重大贡献。

Are the elderly posing a threat to America's political system with their enormous clout? Are they stretching resources to the breaking point with their growing demands for care? Posner explodes the myth that the United States could be on the brink of gerontological disaster. This study offers insight into a range of social and political issues relating to the elderly, such as h...(展开全部)

Are the elderly posing a threat to America's political system with their enormous clout? Are they stretching resources to the breaking point with their growing demands for care? Distinguished economist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner explodes the myth that the United States could be on the brink of gerontological disaster. Aging and Old Age offers fresh insight into a wide...(展开全部)

The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler’s List and Napoleon’s Last Island is at his triumphant best with this “engrossing and transporting” (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England’s most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let hi...(展开全部)