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OverviewShortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how chronological age has come to possess far-reaching ideological, ethical, and aesthetic implications, both in the past and present. Andrea Charise argues that authors of the nineteenth century used the imaginative resources of literature to engage with an unprecedented climate of crisis associated with growing old. Marshalling a great variety of canonical authors including William Godwin, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and George Gissing, as well as less familiar writings by George Henry Lewes, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Agnes Strickland, and Max Nordau, Charise demonstrates why the imaginative capacity of writing became an interdisciplinary crucible for testing what it meant to grow old at a time of profound cultural upheaval. Charise's grounding in medicine, political history, literature, and genre offers a fresh, original, thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of nineteenth-century aging and age theory, as well as new insights into the rise of the novel—a genre usually thought of as affiliated almost entirely with the young or middle-aged. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrea CharisePublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438477466ISBN 10: 1438477465 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 02 January 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Aesthetics of Senescence Abbreviations 1. William Godwin and the Artifice of Immortality 2. “In the condition of an aged person”: Mary Shelley and Frail Romanticism 3. George Eliot’s Aging Bodies 4. “The Century’s corpse”: Reading Senility at the Fin de Sičcle 5. Writing Twenty-First-Century Aging Populations Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsAs we assess the cultural status of age and aging in our own time, Charise provocatively shows how fiction can highlight the continued importance of collective identity and the value of intersubjectivity. She thus illuminates the history of gerontology as well as nineteenth-century British fiction. - Review 19 ...a genius-level contribution to aging studies that, best thing of all, starts with poetry! - Poetry Magazine Charise's brilliantly argued, clearly written book is an important intervention in nineteenth-century British literature, age studies, and medical humanities. It brings these areas of inquiry together in what seems a seamless way-as if they have always traveled together or ought to have. Through an investigation of what she calls the 'aesthetics of embodiment that shaped nineteenth-century visions of aging,' Charise has given us an original and groundbreaking study of literary, historical, anthropological, and philosophical texts. - Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen Author InformationAt the University of Toronto Scarborough, Andrea Charise is Assistant Professor in both the Department of English and in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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