Age and gender: Aging in the nineteenth century [Journal special issue]

This special issue of Nineteenth Century Gender Studies brings together two crucial aspects of identity formation and experience, age and gender, in order to consider the ways in which each may be mutually-informed. Includes the following articles: Alice Crossley, “Age and Gender: Aging in the Nineteenth Century” 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