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The Victorians and Old Age (Hardcover, New)
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The Victorians and Old Age (Hardcover, New)
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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.
The Victorians and Old Age shows that if old age became for the
Victorians such a conspicuous public topic and problem, it also
became an intensely private preoccupation. The social formation of
old age created terms, images, and narratives that lone individuals
used to fashion the stories of their lives. The book is intent to
respect the specificity of aging: not only the wide diversities of
circumstance (rich and poor, urban and rural, watched and
forgotten, powerful and dispossessed) but also the distinct acts of
representation by novelists, painters, journalists, sociologists,
and diary-keepers.
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