The Victorians And Old Age
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The Victorians and Old Age
Author | : Karen Chase |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2009-06-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199564361 |
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This book studies the social and literary conditions which helped construct the experience of old age in the Victorian period. Taking exemplary texts and situating them within relevant cultural episodes, the book recreates the drama of the aged struggling for rights and recognition in a world that would have preferred to grant invisibility.
Aging by the Book
Author | : Kay Heath |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS |
ISBN | : 1441607722 |
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Aging by the Book offers an innovative look at the ways in which middle age, which for centuries had been considered the prime of life, was transformed during the Victorian era into a period of decline. Single women were nearing middle age at thirty, and mothers in their forties were expected to become sexless; meanwhile, fortyish men anguished over whether their time for love had gone by. Looking at well-known novels of the period, as well as advertisements, cartoons, and medical and advice manuals, Kay Heath uncovers how this ideology of decline permeated a changing culture. Aging by the Book unmasks and confronts midlife anxiety by examining its origins, demonstrating that our current negative attitude toward midlife springs from Victorian roots, and arguing that only when we understand the culturally constructed nature of age can we expose its ubiquitous and stealthy influence.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth Century Culture
Author | : Anne-Julia Zwierlein,Katharina Boehm,Anna Farkas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136669026 |
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This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from the fields of cultural, legal and social history. It revisits the origins of many modern debates about aging in the nineteenth century – a period that saw the emergence of cultural and scientific frameworks for the understanding of old age that continue to be influential today. The contributors provide fresh readings of canonical texts by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and others. The volume builds momentum in the burgeoning field of aging studies. It argues that the study of old age in the nineteenth century has entered a new and distinctly interdisciplinary phase that is characterized by a set of research interests that are currently shared across a range of disciplines and that explore conceptions of old age in the nineteenth century by privileging, respectively, questions of agency, of place, of gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.
Aging by the Book
Author | : Kay Heath |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2009-02-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791477267 |
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Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.
Victorians Undone
Author | : Kathryn Hughes |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2018-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781421425702 |
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In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.
The Victorians and Ancient Greece
Author | : Richard Jenkyns |
Publsiher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106005250565 |
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The Vikings and the Victorians
Author | : Andrew Wawn |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780859916448 |
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Andrew Wawn draws together a wide range of source material, including novels, poems, lectures and periodicals, to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the Viking age in 19th century Britain.
Reflections on Old Age
Author | : Cornelius F. Murphy Jr. |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781498218863 |
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The English writer E. M. Forster described old age as "a seductive combination of increased wisdom and decaying powers to which too little intelligence is devoted." This book is a response to that criticism. It explains how old age has been considered throughout the ages by philosophers, poets, and other literary figures, and explores how the extraordinary increase of life expectancy that began in the last century has be sustained by science and medicine. Unfortunately the general public still prefers to keep the elderly out of sight and, especially, out of mind. To overcome this marginalization I call for the emergence of a more inclusive humanism--one that is welcoming to persons of all ages. To overcome the pervasive isolation of the elderly requires a new dialogue across all the living generations. Echoing the sentiments of Cicero in his classic study of old age, I also call for a reflective maturity to develop among the elderly, one that reaches deeply into themselves and increases their understanding of the world around them. Spiritual maturity demands growth in virtue and charity in the advance of years. A reaching out to all in the pursuit of justice and the common good is strongly recommended. The book concludes with some reflections upon hopes for personal immortality as well as the qualities of divine justice and mercy.