Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Campbell, Erin J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]
Subjects:	Older people > Europe > History. Aging > Social aspects > Europe > History. Aging in literature. Life cycle, Human, in literature. European literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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.