Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing

R. Troschitz: Why Age Matters (and Should Be of Concern to Cultural Studies) - M. Gürtner: Towards a Room of Her Own. 'Dialogue Spaces' and the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Times - Ö. Sarica: 'You're getting too bloody old for this'. Female Detectives and Representations of Ageing in British Crime Drama - J. Dolan: Ageing Stardom. The 'Economy of Celebrity' and the Gendering of the 'Third Age Imaginary' - S. Strauß: Visualising Memory Loss. Contemporary Portraiture and the Politics of Representation - C. Gilleard: Pain, Suffering and Abjection in the Fourth Age - Reviews - M. Morganroth Gullette: Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People - H. Hartung: Embodied Narration. Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture - S. Francescato / R. Maierhofer / V. Minghetti / E.-M. Trinkaus: Senior Tourism. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling - B. Black: Hotel London. How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories - C. Flotmann-Scholz / A. Lienen: Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures - S. Frenzel / B. Neumann: Ecocriticism. Environments in Anglophone Literatures

Editors: Ina Habermann, Englisches Seminar, Universität Basel. Lucia Krämer, Anglistik, Cultural and Media Studies, Universität Passau. Gerold Sedlmayr, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, TU Dortmund. Claus-Ulrich Viol, Englisches Seminar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Reviews Editor: Susanne Gruss, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Editorial Committee: Sebastian Berg (Bochum), Nadine Boehm-Schnitker (Wuppertal), Georgia Christinidis (Rostock), Rainer Emig (Mainz), Christian Huck (Kiel), Jürgen Kamm (Passau), Stephan Karschay (Hamburg), Gabriele Linke (Rostock), Susanne Schmid (Berlin), Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock), Gesa Stedman (Berlin), Lena Steveker (Saarbrücken), Dirk Wiemann (Potsdam). Advisory Board: Simon Frith (Edinburgh), Richard Kilborn (Stirling), Bernhard Klein (Canterbury), Jürgen Kramer (Dortmund), Gerry Mooney (Glasgow), Gabriele Rippl (Bern), Roland Sturm (Erlangen) Editors of this Issue: Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Regensburg. Joanna Rostek, Institut für Anglistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Ina Habermann, Englisches Seminar, Universität Basel. Cover Design: Cover image by Joanna Rostek and Martin Decker.