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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463396203321

Autore

Martin Christopher <1957->

Titolo

Constituting old age in Early Modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear / / Christopher Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-61376-219-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture

Disciplina

820.9/354

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Old age in literature

Aging in literature

Intergenerational relations in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Age, agency, and early modern constitutions -- Elizabeth I's politics of longevity -- Out to pasture: the bucolic elder in Spenser, Sidney, and their heirs -- Gerontophobia and late Elizabethan poetry: "old strange thinges" -- "Confin'd to exhibition": King Lear through the spectacles of age -- Epilogue: figures of retire.