Thomas R. Cole, Cole

The Journey of Life

A Cultural History of Aging in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Journey of Life is both a cultural history of aging and a contribution to public dialogue about the meaning and significance of later life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521447652
• ISBN-10: 0521447658
• Artikelnr.: 21363228

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Ages of Life and
the Journey of Life: Transcendental Ideals: 1. Aging in the Western
tradition: cultural origins of the modern life course; 2. The aging
pilgrim's progress in the New World; 3. 'Death without order': the late
Calvinist ideal of aging; Part II. The Dualism of Aging in Victorian
America: 4. Antebellum revivals and Victorian morals: the ideological
origins of ageism; 5. Popular health reform and the legitimation of
longevity, 1830-1870; 6. Aging, popular art, and Romantic religion in
mid-Victorian culture; 7. In a different voice: self-help and the ideal of
'civilized' old age, 1850-1910; Part III. Science and the Ideal of Normal
Aging: 8. The aging of 'civilized' morality: the fixed period versus
prolongevity, 1870-1925; 9. Toward the scientific management of aging: the
formative literature of gerontology and geriatrics, 1890-1930; 10. The
prophecy of Senescence: G. Stanley Hall and the reconstruction of old age;
Epilogue: beyond dualism and control - reflections on aging in postmodern
culture; Index.