02369nam 2200577Ia 450 991077773090332120230207230225.00-7914-7726-61-4416-0772-2(CKB)1000000000755890(OCoLC)365461085(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575867(SSID)ssj0000100405(PQKBManifestationID)11114078(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100405(PQKBWorkID)10036562(PQKB)11532980(MiAaPQ)EBC3407441(Au-PeEL)EBL3407441(CaPaEBR)ebr10575867(EXLCZ)99100000000075589020080418d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAging by the book[electronic resource] the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain /Kay HeathAlbany SUNY Pressc20091 online resource (262 p.) SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth centuryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-7657-X 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.SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.Middle-aged womenAttitudesMiddle-aged womenGreat BritainSocial conditionsGreat BritainHistoryVictoria, 1837-1901Great BritainSocial life and customs19th centuryMiddle-aged womenAttitudes.Middle-aged womenSocial conditions.305.2440941/09034Heath Kay1953-1568247MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777730903321Aging by the book3840308UNINA