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Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) by Kay Heath is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) about?
Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture. From the Back Cover Aging by the Book offers an innovative look at the ways in which middle age, which for centuries had been considered the prime of life, was transformed during the Victorian era into a period of decline. Single women were nearing middle age at thirty, and mothers in their forties were expected to become sexless; meanwhile, fortyish men anguished over whether their "time for love had gone by." Looking at well-known novels of the period, as well as advertisements, cartoons, and medical and advice manuals, Kay Heath uncovers how this ideology of decline permeated a changing culture. Aging by the Book unmasks and confronts midlife anxiety by examining its origins, demonstrating that our current negative attitude toward midlife springs from Victorian roots, and arguing that only when we understand the culturally constructed nature of age can we expose its ubiquitous and stealthy influence. "From the shrewd situating of middle age as the liminal rather than central stage between youth and age to insightful rereadings of the marriage plot in relation to narratives of decline, Kay Heath's Aging by t
Who reads Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kay Heath
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780791477267
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Gender Studies
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