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Aging by the book : the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain
2009
Overview
Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.
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.
Publisher
SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
Subject
/ Cultural Studies : Gerontology/Aging Studies
/ Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
/ Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
/ History
/ HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
/ Literature : English Literature
/ Literature : Nineteenth-Century Studies
/ Middle-aged women -- Attitudes
ISBN
0791476588, 9780791476581, 079147657X, 9780791476574, 9780791477267, 0791477266
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