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

Published Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations Series Suny series, Studies in the long nineteenth century SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index Notes Print version record Subject Middle-aged women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions Middle-aged women -- Attitudes FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General. Manners and customs Middle-aged women -- Attitudes Middle-aged women -- Social conditions SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056952 Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056823 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441607720 1441607722 9780791477267 0791477266

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