Lynn Botelho, Susannah R Ottaway, Anne Kugler

The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I Vol 2 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040231197
• Artikelnr.: 72285618

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Lynn Botelho, Susannah R Ottaway, Anne Kugler

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 2 The Cultural Conception of Old Age in the Eighteenth Century Introduction Literature Richard Bulstrode
'On Old Age'
in Miscellaneous Essays (1715) Thomas Brown
'Mr. Brown's Horace'
'To a Gentleman that Cut of his Hair ... in his Old Age'
'A Catch'
'Laconics; or
New Maxims of State and Conversation' and 'To My Lady . . . . . . that Marry'd an Old Decrepid Widower'
in The Fourth and Last Volume of the Works of Mr. T omas Brown
8th edn (1744) Samuel Johnson
'Age and Youth' and 'Old Age' (1750)
in The Beau[1]ties of the Rambler
Adventurer
Connoisseur
World
and Idler (1787) George Saville Carey
The Old Women Weatherwise
an Interlude ([1788]) Mr Addison [pseud.]
'Old Age' and 'On Youth'
in A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes
Memoirs
Allegories
Essays
and Poetical Fragments (1793) Ballads
Broadsides and Ephemera A Comical and Diverting Courtship
which Lately Happened between an old Woman of Fourscore and Fifteen
and a Youth about Nineteen
With whom she was Married ([1700-99]) 'An Epitaph on Bona Fide
Here Lies an Old Man of Seventy-Seven'
in Pills to Purge State-Melancholy (1718) The Deluge: or
Cautious Old-Woman. A Tale (1723) The Age and Life of Man; or
A Short Description of his Nature
Rise and Fall
According to the Twelve Months of the Year ([c. 1750]) 'Lancashire John' and 'The Old Woman Spinning of Time'
in Lancashire John's Garland ([c. 1750]) 'On Life'
in Jacob Easterbrook (ed.)
A Copy of Verses ([1761]) 'The Mistletoe - A Christmas Tale
By Laura Maria'
in Jacob Easterbrook (ed.)
A Copy of Verses ([1761]) The Felton Garland. Containing Tree Excellent New Songs ([c. 1760]) The Wanton Virgins Frighted: With the Spy's Down-Fall f om the Tree-Top ([c. 1760]) The Age of Man
Displayed in the Several Changes of Human Life ([c. 1775]) The Old Woman Cloathed in Grey ([c. 1775]) The Chearfull Old Maid (n.d.) The Honey Moon (n.d.) The Age of Man
Compared to all the Months in the Year ([c. 1790]) 'The Buxom Dame of Reading'
in The Cuckold's Cap Garland (n.d.) Beneath T is Stone Lies Catherine Gray. An Epitaph on an Old Woman Who Sold Earthen Ware at Chester ([c. 1800]) George Alexander Stevens
The Description of a Wonderful Old Man([c. 1800]) 'The Age of Man'
in An Excellent Garland ([c. 1800]) Medicine and Prolongevity Nicholas Robinson
A New Method of Treating Consumptions
Wherein all the Decays Incident to Human Bodies
are Mechanically Accounted for (1727) The Best and Easiest Method of Preserving Uninterrupted Health to Extreme Old Age (1748) [ John Hill]
The Old Man's Guide to Health and Longer Life
2nd edn ([c. 1750]) 'Doctor Adelphi'
Sung
in a new Piece
at the Patagonian Theatre
Exeter Change
The Words by Robt Dighton ([c. 1770]) Remarks on the Final Cessation of the Menses (1775) John Bexley
Fif y-Four Years the Canterbury News-Carrier ([1788]) 167The Art of Preserving Beauty (1789) William Brodum
A Guide to Old Age
or a Cure for the Indiscretions of Youth
46th edn (1799) An Essay on the Most Rational Means of Preserving Health
and Attaining to an Advanced Age (1799) A Dialogue between Life and Death ([c. 1800]) Isaac James
Bookseller
Tea-Dealer
and Undertaker ([c. 1805]) Sermons John Graile
Vigorous Longevity; or
A Good Old Age
and the Best Way
both to Attain it; and to Improve it (1720) Samuel Hebden
The Best Way to Provide Against Old Age and to Prepare for Death (1739) Jacob Isaac
Religion Alone the Cause of Happiness in Old Age (1787) Editorial Notes