Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations /: cultural representations. (©2006)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.