Creativity in Later Life

Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue across the disciplinary divide, the contributions of this volume reflect anew on what we share and how we differ; creating new narratives so as to build an understanding of late-life creativity that goes far beyond the narrow confines of the pervasively received idea of 'late style'.

David Amigoni is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Enterprise and Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University, UK Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King's College London, UK; and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre

Introduction David Amigoni and Gordon McMullan The challenges of late-life creativity - Imagining otherwise: the disciplinary identity of gerontology Ruth Ray - The singing voice in late life Jane Manning - Creative ageing: the social policy challenge Susan Hogan and Emily Bradfield Rethinking late style - Turner's last works and his critics Sam Smiles - Constructing a late style for David Bowie: old age, late-life creativity, popular culture Gordon McMullan - An 'old man in the dimming world': Theodor Adorno, Derek Walcott and a defence of the idea of late style Robert Spencer The varieties of late-life creativity - Late-life creativity: assessing the value of theatre in later life Miriam Bernard and Michelle Rickett - Late-life creativity: methods for understanding arts- generated social capital in the lives of older people Jackie Reynolds - 'It's play, really, isn't it?': dress, creativity, old age Hannah Zeilig and Anna-Marie Almira - Visual diaries, creativity and everyday life Wendy Martin and Katy Pilcher - Self, civic engagement and late-life creativity Angela Glendenning Narrating dementia - A critical narrative on late-life creativity and dementia: integrating citizenship, embodiment and relationality Pia Kontos and Alisa Grigorovich - 'The artistry of it all': narrating The Tempest, dementia and the mapping of identity in a Manchester extrincare housing scheme Liz Postlethwaite - Terry Pratchett's Living with Alzheimer's as a case study in late-life creativity Martina Zimmerman - Narratives as talking therapy: research with Sikh carers of a family member with dementia in Wolverhampton Karan Jutlla Old age, creativity and the late city - 'Work, work, work and full steam ahead': Ian McKay and the conserving radicalism of the Gorton Visual Art Group, public artists in later life John Miles - The late Peter Rice: late-style stories of ageing and the city in A Bright Past for Stoke on Trent David Amigoni