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Aging by the book : the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain
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Aging by the book : the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain / Kay Heath.
ISBN
9780791476574 (hardcover : alk. paper)
079147657X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2009
Series
Suny series, Studies in the long nineteenth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The rise of midlife in Victorian Britain
"No longer the man he was" : age anxiety in the male midlife marriage plot
"The neutral man-woman" : female desexualization at midlife
Marriageable at midlife : the remarrying widows of Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope
In the eye of the beholder : Victorian age construction and the specular self
"How to keep young" : advertising and late-Victorian age anxiety
Afterword: The future of midlife.
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