Book chapter
The Unnatural Youth of the Old “New Woman”
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture, pp.83-100
Routledge
2014
DOI: 10.4324/9780203582626-13
Abstract
The promise of an elixir that would not merely prolong life but actually breach the boundary between youth and age has long been a preoccupation of myth and science. However, in late-nineteenth-century Britain, the fantasy aligned with a larger cultural shift that saw visible signs of aging through the distorting lens of “degeneration” and devolution anxieties. At the same time, as the physiological processes of aging began to be better understood, scientists and novelists dreamed of subduing the depredations of time.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Unnatural Youth of the Old “New Woman”
- Creators
- Teresa L Mangum - University of Iowa, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
- Contributors
- Anne-Julia Zwierlein (Editor)Katharina Boehm (Editor)Anna Farkas (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture, pp.83-100
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780203582626-13
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Obermann Center for Advanced Studies; English; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; International Programs; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984270190602771
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