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Ashgate
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Growing old in early modern Europe: cultural representations
2006, Ashgate
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Burlington, VT

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.26/094/0903
Library of Congress
HQ1064.E85 G76 2006, HQ1064.E85G76 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL3402371M
ISBN 10
0754650839
LCCN
2005017250
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3864654

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