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This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of
old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of
the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book
places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century
literature in dialogue with experts from the fields of cultural,
legal and social history. It revisits the origins of many modern
debates about aging in the nineteenth century - a period that saw
the emergence of cultural and scientific frameworks for the
understanding of old age that continue to be influential today. The
contributors provide fresh readings of canonical texts by Charles
Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and others. The volume builds momentum in the burgeoning
field of aging studies. It argues that the study of old age in the
nineteenth century has entered a new and distinctly
interdisciplinary phase that is characterized by a set of research
interests that are currently shared across a range of disciplines
and that explore conceptions of old age in the nineteenth century
by privileging, respectively, questions of agency, of place, of
gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.
This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of
old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of
the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book
places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century
literature in dialogue with experts from the fields of cultural,
legal and social history. It revisits the origins of many modern
debates about aging in the nineteenth century - a period that saw
the emergence of cultural and scientific frameworks for the
understanding of old age that continue to be influential today. The
contributors provide fresh readings of canonical texts by Charles
Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and others. The volume builds momentum in the burgeoning
field of aging studies. It argues that the study of old age in the
nineteenth century has entered a new and distinctly
interdisciplinary phase that is characterized by a set of research
interests that are currently shared across a range of disciplines
and that explore conceptions of old age in the nineteenth century
by privileging, respectively, questions of agency, of place, of
gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.
In the field of literary and cultural studies, interest in
nineteenth-century biology has been substantial for the last 20
years, yet the focus has been almost exclusively on evolutionary
theory, neglecting other branches of nineteenth-century biology.
This collection corrects that imbalance, shedding light on other
discoveries in cell biology, physiology, neurology and virology. It
examines the issue of authority in science, demonstrating the
social embeddedness' of the natural sciences, and gender issues. It
also shows how scientists and creative writers drew on a common
imagination as well as narrative techniques and stylistic devices;
indeed, often inspired by the same subjects. This important new
book, including contributions from some of the most distinguished
experts in the field, demonstrates that the relation between
literature, culture and biology in the nineteenth century is far
more complex than habitual references to Darwin would have us
believe.
In the field of literary and cultural studies, interest in
nineteenth-century biology has been substantial over the last
twenty years, yet the focus has been almost exclusively on
evolutionary theory, neglecting other branches of
nineteenth-century biology. This collection corrects that
imbalance, shedding light on other discoveies in cell biology,
physiology, neurology and virology. It examines the issue of
authority in science, demonstrating the social 'embeddedness' of
the natural sciences, and gender issues. It also shows how
scientists and creative writers drew on a common imagination as
well as narrative techniques and stylistic devices.
Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his
republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime. In
his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his
career as a prose writer, prior to embarking on the composition of
Paradise Lost, John Milton identified 'three varieties of liberty
without whichcivilized life is scarcely possible, namely
ecclesiastical liberty, domestic or personal liberty, and civil
liberty'. In retrospect he was able to find in his earlier writings
a systematic exposition of the grounds of freedom, and a commitment
to expanding its domain through publication and polemic. Taking
initiative from both the history of political thought and
historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive
from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the
conditions of liberty in Milton's writings, and the contested
development of his republicanism, through his career as a civil
servant and prose writer, through his great poems, to his
posthumous reputation and the appropriation of his works; and they
extend laterally to typologies of liberty, the realm of law,
prosody, and religious faith and persecution.Winner of the 2002
Irene Samuel Prize for best composite work onMilton. The
contributors are: THOMAS CORNS, JOHN CREASER, MARTIN DZELZAINIS,
KATSUHIRO ENGETSU, STEPEHN FALLON, BARBARA LEWALSKI, JANEL MUELLER,
CHRISTOPHER ORCHARD, GRAHAM PARRY, JOAD RAYMOND, JOHN RUMRICH,
QUENTIN SKINNER, ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN.GRAHAM PARRY is Professor of
English, University of York; JOAD RAYMOND lectures in the School of
English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.
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