Fictions of old age in early modern literature and culture / Nina Taunton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taunton, Nina.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 8.

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Old age in literature.

Aging in literature.

Intergenerational relations in literature.

Old age--History.

Old age.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Older people.

Shakespeare, William.

Older people.

History.

Physical Description:

210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2007]

Summary:

Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out the experience of growing old and aims to give readers a sense of the diversity involved in the theorising, politics and gendering of old age and ageing.

Contents:

Prologue : the whirligig of time

Commonplaces and stereotypes

Old and young

Disgraceful old age (1) : men behaving badly

Disgraceful old age (2) : women behaving worse

Politics and the workplace

Epilogue : the triumph of age : All's well that ends well.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-204) and index.

ISBN:

9780415324731

0415324734

OCLC:

76794713