ヴィクトリア朝における老年期<br>The Victorians and Old Age

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ヴィクトリア朝における老年期
The Victorians and Old Age

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 300 p.／サイズ 26 b/w halftones
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780199564361
  • DDC分類 302.26094109034

基本説明

A wide-ranging account of old age in the Victorian period by a senior scholar, provides detailed studies of writing on old age by Dickens, Trollope, Gaskell, Oliphant, Wilde, Carroll, and Morris.

Full Description

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 artefacts, 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.

Contents

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 Siecle ; 7. Gravestones, Obituaries, Epitaphs ; Coda