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An exciting, ground-breaking monograph on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century fascination with rejuvenation. -- Andrea Charise, Associate Professor of Health and Society, University of Toronto, Canada Through his innovative analysis of speculative fiction from 1878 to 1918, Green brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of age and aging, revealing how literature has not just mirrored but actively influenced cultural and scientific attitudes toward human longevity. * Ulla Kriebernegg, Professor in Cultural Aging and Care Research, University of Graz, Austria. *

An exciting, ground-breaking monograph on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century fascination with rejuvenation. -- Andrea Charise, Associate Professor of Health and Society, University of Toronto, Canada

An exciting, ground-breaking monograph on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century fascination with rejuvenation. -- Andrea Charise, Associate Professor of Health and Society, University of Toronto, Canada Through his innovative analysis of speculative fiction from 1878 to 1918, James Aaron Green brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of age and aging, revealing how literature has not just mirrored but actively influenced cultural and scientific attitudes toward human longevity. * Ulla Kriebernegg, Professor in Cultural Aging and Care Research, University of Graz, Austria. *

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James Aaron Green received his PhD from the University of Exeter in 2019 and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, from 2021–24, working on a project funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). He has been widely published in age and aging studies, nineteenth-century popular fiction, and game studies. His first monograph, Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain, appeared in 2024.

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