By Anne-Julia Zwierlein,Katharina Boehm,Anna Farkas

This essay assortment develops new views on structures of previous age in literary, criminal, clinical and periodical cultures of the 19th century. conscientiously interdisciplinary, the booklet locations top researchers of outdated age in nineteenth-century literature in discussion with specialists from the fields of cultural, criminal and social historical past. It revisits the origins of many sleek debates approximately getting older within the 19th century – a interval that observed the emergence of cultural and medical frameworks for the certainty of previous age that remain influential at the present time. The members offer clean readings of canonical texts by means of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and others. the amount builds momentum within the burgeoning box of getting older experiences. It argues that the research of outdated age within the 19th century has entered a brand new and particularly interdisciplinary part that's characterised by way of a suite of study pursuits which are presently shared throughout quite a number disciplines and that discover conceptions of outdated age within the 19th century by means of privileging, respectively, questions of business enterprise, of position, of gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.

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