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The Aesthetics of Senescence
- Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Engelsk Hardback
The Aesthetics of Senescence
- Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Engelsk Hardback

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Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Shortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science

The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how chronological age has come to possess far-reaching ideological, ethical, and aesthetic implications, both in the past and present. Andrea Charise argues that authors of the nineteenth century used the imaginative resources of literature to engage with an unprecedented climate of crisis associated with growing old. Marshalling a great variety of canonical authors including William Godwin, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and George Gissing, as well as less familiar writings by George Henry Lewes, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Agnes Strickland, and Max Nordau, Charise demonstrates why the imaginative capacity of writing became an interdisciplinary crucible for testing what it meant to grow old at a time of profound cultural upheaval. Charise''s grounding in medicine, political history, literature, and genre offers a fresh, original, thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of nineteenth-century aging and age theory, as well as new insights into the rise of the novel-a genre usually thought of as affiliated almost entirely with the young or middle-aged.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781438477459
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438477457
Udg. Dato:
1 jan 2020
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
1 jan 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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