Kay Heath is Associate Professor of English at Virginia State University.

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Rise of Midlife in Victorian Britain

2. "No Longer the Man He Was": Age Anxiety in the Male Midlife Marriage Plot

3. "The Neutral Man-Woman": Female Desexualization at Midlife

4. Marriageable at Midlife: The Remarrying Widows of Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope

5. In the Eye of the Beholder: Victorian Age Construction and the Specular Self

6. "How To Keep Young": Advertising and Late-Victorian Age Anxiety

7. Afterword: The Future of Midlife

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