Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations /: cultural representations. (©2006)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations /: cultural representations. (©2006)
- Main Title:
- Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Erin Campbell.
- Other Names:
- Campbell, Erin J
- Contents:
- Appropriating the ancients and representing the aged -- Medical representations of old age in the renaissance : 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 -- Old age in Castiglione's The book of the courtier / Maria Teresa Ricci -- Aging the lover : the Posies of George Gascoigne / 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 / Philip D. Collington.
- Publisher Details:
- Aldershot, England Burlington, VT : Ashgate
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Copyright Date:
- 2006
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (x, 217 pages, [28] pages of plates), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 305.26/094/0903
Older people -- Europe -- History
Aging -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
Aging in literature
Life cycle, Human, in literature
European literature
Aged
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Cultural Characteristics
Medicine in Literature
Social Perception
Personnes âgées -- Europe -- Histoire
Vieillissement -- Aspect social -- Europe -- Histoire
Vieillissement dans la littérature
Étapes de la vie dans la littérature
Littérature européenne
Aging in literature
Aging -- Social aspects
European literature
Life cycle, Human, in literature
Older people
Ouderen
Bejaarden
Kultur
Literatur
Alter
Europe
Europe
History
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781351564847
1351564846 - Related ISBNs:
- 0754650839
9780754650836 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211) and index.
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