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Constituting old age in Early Modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Christopher, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
Series:Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.
Subjects:
Intergenerational relations in literature.
Aging in literature.
Old age in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Age, agency, and early modern constitutions
  • Elizabeth I's politics of longevity
  • Out to pasture: the bucolic elder in Spenser, Sidney, and their heirs
  • Gerontophobia and late Elizabethan poetry: "old strange thinges"
  • "Confin'd to exhibition": King Lear through the spectacles of age
  • Epilogue: figures of retire.