The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in AmericaCambridge University Press, 1992 M11 27 - 260 pages 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. The core of the book shows how central texts and images of Northern middle-class culture, first in Europe and then in America, created and sustained specifically modern images of the life course between the Reformation and World War I. During this long period, secular, scientific and individualist tendencies steadily eroded ancient and medieval understandings of aging as a mysterious part of the eternal order of things. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, however, postmodern images of life's journey offer a renewed awareness of the spiritual dimensions of later life and new opportunities for growth in an aging society. |
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... pilgrim's progress in the New World 3. " Death without order " : the late Calvinist ideal of aging 3 32 48 PART 2. THE DUALISM OF AGING IN VICTORIAN AMERICA 4. Antebellum revivals and Victorian morals : the ideological origins of ageism ...
... pilgrim's progress in the New World 3. " Death without order " : the late Calvinist ideal of aging 3 32 48 PART 2. THE DUALISM OF AGING IN VICTORIAN AMERICA 4. Antebellum revivals and Victorian morals : the ideological origins of ageism ...
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Contents
cultural origins of the modern | 3 |
The aging pilgrims progress in the New World | 32 |
the late Calvinist ideal of aging | 48 |
THE DUALISM OF AGING IN VICTORIAN AMERICA | 71 |
Popular health reform and the legitimation of longevity 1830 | 92 |
Aging popular art and Romantic religion in midVictorian | 110 |
selfhelp and the ideal of civilized | 139 |
Other editions - View all
The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America Thomas R. Cole No preview available - 1992 |
The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America Thomas R. Cole No preview available - 1997 |
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