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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Chase |
ISBN: | 0199564361 9780199564361 |
OCLC Number: | 819323149 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | 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 Siecle ; 7. Gravestones, Obituaries, Epitaphs ; Coda |
Responsibility: | Karen Chase. |
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This book contains real insights into the literary representation of older people in the nineteenth century. Chase's book adds substantially to emerging scholarship in age studies by considering old age in the rich context of Victorian literature and culture * Devoney Looser, The Review of English Studies * very professional and thoughtful * Olwen Hufton, Literature and History * The analyses of these representations of old age are sophisticated, nuanced and stimulating * Nigel Goose, LPS * she presents insightful illustrations... This is cultural analysis of a high order, far-ranging and scrupulous, humane and imaginative * A. R. Vogeler, CHOICE * Chase is persistently engaging. * Bill Greenwell, Journal of Ageing and Society 2011 * Read more...

