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BL
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963344
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b717714
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Heath, Kay,1953-
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| Title & Author
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Aging by the book : : the emergence of midlife in Victorian Britain /\ Kay Heath.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: SUNY Press,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Suny series, Studies in the long nineteenth century
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1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0791477266
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: 1441607722
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: 9780791477267
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: 9781441607720
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079147657X
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9780791476574
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: The rise of midlife in Victorian Britain -- "No longer the man he was" : age anxiety in the male midlife marriage plot -- "The neutral man-woman" : female desexualization at midlife -- Marriageable at midlife : the remarrying widows of Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope -- In the eye of the beholder : Victorian age construction and the specular self -- "How to keep young" : advertising and late-Victorian age anxiety -- Afterword: The future of midlife.
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Middle-aged women-- Attitudes.
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Middle-aged women-- Great Britain-- Social conditions.
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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS-- Life Stages-- General.
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Manners and customs.
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Middle-aged women-- Attitudes.
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Middle-aged women-- Social conditions.
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Great Britain, History, Victoria, 1837-1901.
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Great Britain, Social life and customs, 19th century.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.2440941/09034
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| LC Classification
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HQ1059.5.G7H43 2009eb
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