Growing old in early modern Europe
Subtitle: cultural representations
By: edited by Erin J. Campbell.
Contributors: Campbell, Erin J.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Older people -- Europe -- History.; Aging -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.; Aging in literature.; Life cycle, Human, in literature.; European literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Appropriating the ancients and representing the aged; title: Medical representations of old age and the influence of non-medical texts / Daniel Schäfer; title: Time's whirligig: images of old age in Coriolanus, Francis Bacon and Thomas Newton / Nina Taunton; title: Youth, old age, and male self-fashioning: the appropriation of the anacreontic figure of the old man by Jonson and his 'sons' / Stella Achilleos; title: Aging at court; title: The problem of old age in the Book of the Courtier / Maria Teresa Ricci; title: Aging the lover: the lyrics of George Gascoigne's Posies / Kevin P. Laam; title: The aging self; title: 'Should I as yet call you old?' Testing the boundaries of female old age in early modern England / Aki C. L. Beam; title: Thematic reflections on old age in Titian's late works / Zbynek Smetana; title: Power, fragility, and anxiety; title: Visible signs of aging: images of old women in renaissance Venice / Mary E. Frank; title: 'Unenduring' beauty: gender and old age in early modern art and aesthetics / Erin J. Campbell Cosimo's Black Widow / Allison Levy; title: Sans wife: sexual anxiety and the old man in Shakespeare's plays / Philip D. Collington.