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Autore |
Heath Kay <1953-> |
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Titolo |
Aging by the book [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain / / Kay Heath |
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Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-7726-6 |
1-4416-0772-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Middle-aged women - Attitudes |
Middle-aged women - Great Britain - Social conditions |
Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 |
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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