Issue 13.2 (Summer 2017)
Special Issue:
Age and Gender: Aging in the Nineteenth Century

Guest Edited by Alice Crossley

Introduction

Alice Crossley, “Age and Gender: Aging in the Nineteenth Century”

Articles

Melanie Zynel, “‘A Strange and Ghastly Spectacle’: Aging, Illness, and Intimacy in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”

Abigail Boucher, “The Monk and Menopause: Gender, Medicine, and the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century”

Leah Grisham, “‘A distortion of nature’s harmony’: Aging Women and the Exotic in Dombey and Son and Villette”

Jonathon Shears, “Byron and Premature Aging”

Marta Miquel-Baldellou, “Masculinities in Distress: Aging and Gender Trouble in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Caxtons”

Alice Crossley, “‘I Fear I Have the Heart of a Boy’: Age Consciousness and Age Difference in George Meredith’s ‘The Gentleman of Fifty and the Damsel of Nineteen’”

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, “The New Era of Longevity Discovered, 1869-1929: The Shock of Women’s Midlife Strength and the Construction of Gender Envy”

Reviews

Susan David Bernstein, “Ghost Walks.” Review of Alison Booth’s Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries.

Peter Merchant, “” Review of Collen M. Conway’s Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael: A Cultural History of a Biblical Story.