Aging by the book
Subtitle: the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain
By: Kay Heath.
Series: Suny series, Studies in the long nineteenth century
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780791476574
Subjects: Middle-aged women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions; Middle-aged women -- Attitudes; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of midlife in Victorian Britain; title: "No longer the man he was" : age anxiety in the male midlife marriage plot; title: "The neutral man-woman" : female desexualization at midlife; title: Marriageable at midlife : age ideology under construction in the remarrying widows of Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope; title: In the eye of the beholder : Victorian age construction and the specular self; title: "How to keep young" : advertising and late-Victorian age anxiety.