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Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada

By Marlene Goldman
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By Marlene Goldman
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Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer’s disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to offer readers consolation. Over time they evolved into narratives of gothic horror in which the illness is presented not as a normal consequence of aging but as an apocalyptic transformation.

Weaving together scientific, cultural, and aesthetic depictions of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, Forgo...

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