The Aesthetics of Senescence - Andrea Charise

The Aesthetics of Senescence

Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2021
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7746-6 (ISBN)
31,80 inkl. MwSt
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.

At the University of Toronto Scarborough, Andrea Charise is Assistant Professor in both the Department of English and in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Aesthetics of Senescence

Abbreviations

1. William Godwin and the Artifice of Immortality

2. “In the condition of an aged person”: Mary Shelley and Frail Romanticism

3. George Eliot’s Aging Bodies

4. “The Century’s corpse”: Reading Senility at the Fin de Sičcle

5. Writing Twenty-First-Century Aging Populations

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 8
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 1-4384-7746-5 / 1438477465
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-7746-6 / 9781438477466
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