Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Aldershot, Hants [u.a.] : Ashgate,
2006
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| Schlagworte: | Older people Aging Aging in literature Life cycle, Human, in literature European literature Altern Kultur Geschichte 1350-1700 Europa Künste mehr... |
| Umfang: | X, 217 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Appropriating the ancients and representing the aged
- Medical representations of old age and the influence of non-medical texts / Daniel Schäfer
- Time's whirligig: images of old age in Coriolanus, Francis Bacon and Thomas Newton / Nina Taunton
- Youth, old age, and male self-fashioning: the appropriation of the anacreontic figure of the old man by Jonson and his 'sons' / Stella Achilleos
- Aging at court
- The problem of old age in the Book of the Courtier / Maria Teresa Ricci
- Aging the lover: the lyrics of George Gascoigne's Posies / Kevin P. Laam
- The aging self
- 'Should I as yet call you old?' Testing the boundaries of female old age in early modern England / Aki C. L. Beam
- Thematic reflections on old age in Titian's late works / Zbynek Smetana
- Power, fragility, and anxiety
- Visible signs of aging: images of old women in renaissance Venice / Mary E. Frank
- 'Unenduring' beauty: gender and old age in early modern art and aesthetics / Erin J. Campbell Cosimo's Black Widow / Allison Levy
- Sans wife: sexual anxiety and the old man in Shakespeare's plays / Philip D. Collington