ISBN:
9780791476574
,
079147657X
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 247 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Suny series
Series Statement:
Studies in the long nineteenth century
DDC:
305.2440941/09034
Keywords:
Middle-aged women Social conditions
;
Middle-aged women Attitudes
;
Großbritannien
;
Mittleres Lebensalter
;
Sozialgeschichte 1837-1901
;
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century
;
Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901
;
Großbritannien
;
Mittleres Lebensalter
;
Sozialgeschichte 1837-1901
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index
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URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25891
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