Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The rise of midlife in Victorian Britain
  • "No longer the man he was" : age anxiety in the male midlife marriage plot
  • "The neutral man-woman" : female desexualization at midlife
  • Marriageable at midlife : the remarrying widows of Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope
  • In the eye of the beholder : Victorian age construction and the specular self
  • "How to keep young" : advertising and late-Victorian age anxiety
  • Afterword: The future of midlife.