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Zusatztext This book contains real insights into the literary representation of older people in the nineteenth century. Informationen zum Autor Karen Chase is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is author of Eros and Psyche: Representations of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and George Eliot; Middlemarch (Cambridge Landmarks in World Literature Series); coauthor (with Michael Levenson) of The Spectacle of Intimacy (2000); and editor of Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century (2005). Klappentext This book studies the social and literary conditions which helped construct the experience of old age in the Victorian period. Taking exemplary texts and situating them within relevant cultural episodes, the book recreates the drama of the aged struggling for rights and recognition in a world that would have preferred to grant invisibility. Zusammenfassung This book studies the social and literary conditions which helped construct the experience of old age in the Victorian period. Taking exemplary texts and situating them within relevant cultural episodes, the book recreates the drama of the aged struggling for rights and recognition in a world that would have preferred to grant invisibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Faces and Spaces: Locating Age in the Dickens World 2: Almshouse to Empire; What is 'Enough' for Old Age 3: Creases and Crevices, Heights and Depths: Narrative Extremities and Age 4: Victoria to Victorian: The Queen and Her Age 5: Artistic Investigations and the Elderly Subject 6: The Politics of Personality of Age at the Fin de Siècle 7: Gravestones, Obituaries, Epitaphs Coda
