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Author Heath, Kay, 1953-

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

Publication Info. Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Suny series, Studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
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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Subject Middle-aged women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Middle-aged women.
Great Britain.
Social conditions.
Middle-aged women -- Attitudes.
Middle-aged women -- Attitudes.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Chronological Term 1800-1901
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Heath, Kay, 1953- Aging by the book. Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009 9780791476574 079147657X (DLC) 2008017370 (OCoLC)226038037
ISBN 9781441607720 (electronic book)
1441607722 (electronic book)
9780791477267 (ebook)
0791477266 (ebook)
079147657X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780791476574 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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