Katherine Gustafson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6803206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Gustafson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Gustafson |
| SIGNATURE | GUSTAFSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3883-2550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Life Stage Studies and the Eighteenth Century: Reading Age in Literature
This essay traces the field of life stage studies, surveying its general trends and its particular impact on our understanding of eighteenth‐century culture. Also known as “life cycle studies,” “life span studies,” or “age studies,” this field has been largely overlooked until recently, but has yielded new insights into identity and literary formations. When aggregated, recent studies show a profound change in how aging was perceived and treated …
Parijaat
Parijaat was born under a dull gray sky the color of bus terminals.Her mother, a hippie of the worst kind, went to squat under a tangled crabapple tree behind the house, intending to be one with nature.Alarmed midwives flurried, cleared twigs and pinecones from under her heaving thighs.Crammed a clean white sheet beneath the child's emerging head, squashed cone-shaped and thick with curls.The midwives were from Uganda, had themselves been born in…
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Parijaat
Parijaat was born under a dull gray sky the color of bus terminals.Her mother, a hippie of the worst kind, went to squat under a tangled crabapple tree behind the house, intending to be one with nature.Alarmed midwives flurried, cleared twigs and pinecones from under her heaving thighs.Crammed a clean white sheet beneath the child's emerging head, squashed cone-shaped and thick with curls.The midwives were from Uganda, had themselves been born in…
Life Stage Studies and the Eighteenth Century: Reading Age in Literature
This essay traces the field of life stage studies, surveying its general trends and its particular impact on our understanding of eighteenth‐century culture. Also known as “life cycle studies,” “life span studies,” or “age studies,” this field has been largely overlooked until recently, but has yielded new insights into identity and literary formations. When aggregated, recent studies show a profound change in how aging was perceived and treated …
Art (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Developmental psychology (1 works) · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (1 works) · Field (mathematics (1 works) · Gerontology (1 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (1 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 works)