Aging by the book: the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain
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Main Author: Heath, Kay 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany SUNY Press c2009
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 247 p.)
ISBN:1441607722
9780791477267
9781441607720

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