Aging by the book [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain / / Kay Heath
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.2440941/09034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Middle-aged women - Attitudes |
| Middle-aged women - Great Britain - Social conditions | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 |
| Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Aging by the book |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-7726-6 |
| 1-4416-0772-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777730903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.