top of page
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Safe at Last in the Middle Years:
The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel
Margaret Morganroth Gullette. Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1988; reprinted 1990. Paperback: Open Road Media, 2016.
* * *
"Discovering the midlife progress novel, Gullette finds in recent fiction a pervasive tension between decline and a new ideology of aging. Appropriately, she invites the reader to join the writers in their therapeutic discourse." — Rosemary Franklin, American Literature.
* * *
"Bracing, deft, witty, unflappable, and disarming."
— Kathleen Woodward, author of Aging and Its Discontents
"In terms of breadth of vision, scholarly integrity, and the sheer exhilaration of her writing, Gullette's work is essential reading."
— Mike Hepworth, Aging and Society
* * *
bottom of page