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Victorians and Old Age

By Karen Chase

Victorians and Old Age

By Karen Chase

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Karen Chase examines old age as it was constructed in Victorian social and literary cultures. Beginning with the vexed relation between elderly people whose numbers and needs taxed the state which sought to identify, classify, and provide for them, she analyzes illuminating moments in narrative form, social policy, or cultural attitudes. The book considers the centrality of institutions and of the generational divide; it traces the power and powerlessness of age through a range of characters and individuals as distinct from one another as Dickens's inebriated nurse, Sairey Gamp, to the sober Queen Victoria; and it studies specific narrative forms for expressing heightened emotions attached to aging and the complexities of representing age in pictorial and statistical 'portraits'. Chapters are organized around major literary works set alongside episodes and artifacts, diaries and memoirs, images and inscriptions, that produced (and now illuminate) the construction of old age through Victoria's long reign.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
300
Release Date:
2009-08-10
Publication Date:
2009-06-04
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199564361
ISBN13:
9780199564361
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
617 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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