دانلود کتاب The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction the Aesthetics of Senescence
The Malthusian Intervention
The Aesthetics of Senescence
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 William Godwin and the Artifice of Immortality
Political Justice and the aging Body
Aging’s Speculative Fictions
St. Leon and the Long Life of Species
Chapter 2 “In the condition of an aged person” Mary Shelley and Frail Romanticism
Mary Shelley’s Fictions of Aging
“That fatal child, the terror of the earth”
Writing the Universal Calamity
Frail Romanticism
Chapter 3 George Eliot’s Aging Bodies
Lewes and the Physiology of Aging
Waste and Repair: The Weaver of Raveloe
Living with Aging
Chapter 4 “The Century’s corpse” Reading Senility at the Fin de Siècle
A Woman New but Old
“So old? Or so young? Which?”
The Coming of Age
Senile Reading
Chapter 5 Writing Twenty-First-Century Aging Populations
Notes
Works Cited
Index