Aging by the book : the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain / Kay Heath.

  • Heath, Kay, 1953-
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[2009], ©2009
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Albany : SUNY Press, [2009], ©2009.

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xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    UYS.41.AA8
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  • 9780791476574
  • 079147657X