Old Age in the Old Regime : : Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France /

Old Age in the Old Regime : : Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France / / David Troyansky.

This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Troyansky, David,
MitwirkendeR:
Troyansky, David G.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1989
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 12 b&w photographs, 2 illustrations, 12 tables, 4 graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Aged in the French Population: Numbers and Meanings
  • 2. A New Presence: Images of the Aged in Art
  • 3. From Ridicule to Respect: Literary Discourses on Old Age
  • 4. From Augustinian Retreat to Ciceronian Retirement: Religious and Secular Views
  • 5. Reaching Old Age: Scientific and Medical Thought
  • 6. The Social Context: The Aged in the Rural Family
  • 7. The Aged, the City, and the Hospital
  • 8. A Practical Enlightenment and a Deferential Revolution
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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