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Adulthood and Other Fictions represents a learned, rigorous, and eloquent theorization of age in America -- highly impressive in its own right, and conducive to future advances along the same line. * Matthew Redmond, Journal of American Studies * Adulthood and Other Fictions is groundbreaking, ambitious, and likely to be very influential. It was a pleasure to read, and I believe that we will be continuing to assess and explore its ideas for a long time to come. * Rachael McLennan, American Literary History * While carefully locating her own work in relation to queer theory, disability studies, and chronobiopolitics, among other fields, she also provisions future scholarship on the subject of age... Adulthood and Other Fictions represents a learned, rigorous, and eloquent theorization of age in America – highly impressive in its own right, and conducive to future advances along the same line. * Matthew Redmond, Journal of American Studies * Edelstein both contextualizes her subject within 19th-century American ideals such as self-reliance and independence and successfully lays the groundwork for others to fill in and expand her exploration of age within the American oeuvre. * S. Batcos, CHOICE * ... engages readers on an illuminating journey through nineteenth-century literature * Ellyn Lem, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Age, Culture, Humanities * Adulthood and Other Fictions presents a compelling cultural history of age that promises to interest scholars from across the humanities and the social sciences ... Any of the book's chapters would teach well in graduate and advanced undergraduate literature courses. The readings are sure-footed, deeply informed by historical and critical context. Moving through diverse texts and cultural settings, they establish age as a supple frame of analysis. * Katherine Adams, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers * Adulthood and Other Fictions has much to offer the fields of age studies and nineteenth-century American literature but also queer theory, feminism, and disability studies. Edelstein's intersectional approach reveals age as a missing link that invigorates established arguments about discipline and power in these fields. * Hannah Herndon, Tufts University, Modern Language Review * In this beautifully written book, rife with sharp observations, Edelstein contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cultural constructions of age, adulthood, and life stages. Her book will particularly appeal to American cultural historians and literary scholars. * Ren'ee M. Sentilles, Case Western Reserve University, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *

Edelstein both contextualizes her subject within 19th-century American ideals such as self-reliance and independence and successfully lays the groundwork for others to fill in and expand her exploration of age within the American oeuvre. * S. Batcos, CHOICE *

Edelstein both contextualizes her subject within 19th-century American ideals such as self-reliance and independence and successfully lays the groundwork for others to fill in and expand her exploration of age within the American oeuvre. * S. Batcos, CHOICE * Adulthood and Other Fictions has much to offer the fields of age studies and nineteenth-century American literature but also queer theory, feminism, and disability studies. Edelstein's intersectional approach reveals age as a missing link that invigorates established arguments about discipline and power in these fields. * Hannah Herndon, Tufts University, Modern Language Review * In this beautifully written book, rife with sharp observations, Edelstein contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cultural constructions of age, adulthood, and life stages. Her book will particularly appeal to American cultural historians and literary scholars. * Renee M. Sentilles, Case Western Reserve University, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *

Adulthood and Other Fictions is groundbreaking, ambitious, and likely to be very influential. It was a pleasure to read, and I believe that we will be continuing to assess and explore its ideas for a long time to come. * Rachael McLennan, American Literary History * While carefully locating her own work in relation to queer theory, disability studies, and chronobiopolitics, among other fields, she also provisions future scholarship on the subject of age... Adulthood and Other Fictions represents a learned, rigorous, and eloquent theorization of age in America - highly impressive in its own right, and conducive to future advances along the same line. * Matthew Redmond, Journal of American Studies * Edelstein both contextualizes her subject within 19th-century American ideals such as self-reliance and independence and successfully lays the groundwork for others to fill in and expand her exploration of age within the American oeuvre. * S. Batcos, CHOICE * ... engages readers on an illuminating journey through nineteenth-century literature * Ellyn Lem, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Age, Culture, Humanities * Adulthood and Other Fictions presents a compelling cultural history of age that promises to interest scholars from across the humanities and the social sciences ... Any of the book's chapters would teach well in graduate and advanced undergraduate literature courses. The readings are sure-footed, deeply informed by historical and critical context. Moving through diverse texts and cultural settings, they establish age as a supple frame of analysis. * Katherine Adams, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers * Adulthood and Other Fictions has much to offer the fields of age studies and nineteenth-century American literature but also queer theory, feminism, and disability studies. Edelstein's intersectional approach reveals age as a missing link that invigorates established arguments about discipline and power in these fields. * Hannah Herndon, Tufts University, Modern Language Review * In this beautifully written book, rife with sharp observations, Edelstein contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cultural constructions of age, adulthood, and life stages. Her book will particularly appeal to American cultural historians and literary scholars. * Renee M. Sentilles, Case Western Reserve University, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *

In this beautifully written book, rife with sharp observations, Edelstein contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cultural constructions of age, adulthood, and life stages. Her book will particularly appeal to American cultural historians and literary scholars. * Renee M. Sentilles, Case Western Reserve University, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth * Edelstein both contextualizes her subject within 19th-century American ideals such as self-reliance and independence and successfully lays the groundwork for others to fill in and expand her exploration of age within the American oeuvre. * S. Batcos, CHOICE *

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Sari Edelstein teaches in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing (2014), and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous academic journals, including American Literature, Legacy, ESQ, and Studies in American Fiction.

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