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Author:   Anne-Julia Zwierlein ,  Katharina Boehm ,  Anna Farkas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9780415817967

ISBN 10:   041581796
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   27 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction Katharina Boehm, Anna Farkas and Anne-Julia Zwierlein Part I. Science, Social Reform, and the Aging Body 1. A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century’s View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age Lynn A. Botelho 2. ""Exhausting the powers of life"": Aging, Energy and Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Literary Discourses Anne-Julia Zwierlein 3. Gender Perspectives on the Elderly in Town and Countryside in Victorian England Nigel Goose 4. The Unnatural Youth of the Old ""New Woman"" Teresa Mangum Part II. Intergenerational Exchanges 5. Transatlanticism and the Old Indian: Old Age and Cross-Racial Mentorship in Narratives of National Belonging Katharina Boehm 6. Freedom of Testation in Victorian England Rebecca Probert 7. ""Senile"" Sexuality Karen Chase 8. ""Are You Learning to Grow Old?"": ""Aging Well"" with the Help of The Girl’s Own Paper, 1880 to 1900 Jochen Petzold Part III. Transformations and Appropriations of Victorian Old Age 9. Inventing the ""Aging"" Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century: A Counterfactual Reading Gordon McMullan 10. Active Aging in the Community: Laughing at/ Thinking about Victorian Senescence in Arnold Bennett’s The Old Wives’ Tale and its Theatrical Afterlife David Amigoni 11. Old Age and the Great War: J. M. Barrie’s Plays about the British Home Front Anna Farkas 12. The Double Standard of Aging: On Missing Stendhal in England Helen Small Epilogue Pat Thane"

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Katharina Boehm is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Regensburg University, Germany. Anna Farkas is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Regensburg University, Germany. Anne-Julia Zwierlein holds the Chair of English Literary and Cultural Studies at Regensburg University, Germany.

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