Introduction
1: Faces and Spaces: Locating Age in the Dickens World
2: Almshouse to Empire; What is 'Enough' for Old Age
3: Creases and Crevices, Heights and Depths: Narrative Extremities
and Age
4: Victoria to Victorian: The Queen and Her Age
5: Artistic Investigations and the Elderly Subject
6: The Politics of Personality of Age at the Fin de Siècle
7: Gravestones, Obituaries, Epitaphs
Coda
Karen Chase is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is author of Eros and Psyche: Representations of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and George Eliot; Middlemarch (Cambridge Landmarks in World Literature Series); coauthor (with Michael Levenson) of The Spectacle of Intimacy (2000); and editor of Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century (2005).
Chase is persistently engaging.
*Bill Greenwell, Journal of Ageing and Society 2011*
she presents insightful illustrations... This is cultural analysis
of a high order, far-ranging and scrupulous, humane and
imaginative
*A. R. Vogeler, CHOICE*
The analyses of these representations of old age are sophisticated,
nuanced and stimulating
*Nigel Goose, LPS*
very professional and thoughtful
*Olwen Hufton, Literature and History*
Chase's book adds substantially to emerging scholarship in age
studies by considering old age in the rich context of Victorian
literature and culture
*Devoney Looser, The Review of English Studies*
This book contains real insights into the literary representation
of older people in the nineteenth century.
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