{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1983516404","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2012.0036","title":"\"The Tyranny of Age\": Godwin's St. Leon and the Nineteenth-Century Longevity Narrative","display_name":"\"The Tyranny of Age\": Godwin's St. Leon and the Nineteenth-Century Longevity Narrative","publication_year":2012,"publication_date":"2012-12-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1983516404","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2012.0036","mag":"1983516404"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1353/elh.2012.0036","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2012.0036","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2012.0036","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S169145255","display_name":"ELH","issn_l":"0013-8304","issn":["0013-8304","1080-6547"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315678","host_organization_name":"Johns Hopkins University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315678","https://openalex.org/P4310316510"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Johns Hopkins University Press","Johns Hopkins University"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"ELH","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5007358218","display_name":"Andrea Charise","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3186-2845","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3186-2845"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Andrea Charise","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5007358218"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":22.7483,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":21,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.9903393,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"79","issue":"4","first_page":"905","last_page":"933"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13174","display_name":"American and British Literature Analysis","score":0.35740000009536743,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13174","display_name":"American and British Literature Analysis","score":0.35740000009536743,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12507","display_name":"Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction","score":0.1818999946117401,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14149","display_name":"Historical and Literary Analyses","score":0.0357000008225441,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/william-godwin","display_name":"William Godwin","score":0.9990000128746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/old-age","display_name":"old age","score":0.9169999957084656},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/senescence","display_name":"senescence","score":0.8999999761581421},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/immortality","display_name":"immortality","score":0.9179999828338623},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/political-tyranny","display_name":"political tyranny","score":0.8370000123977661},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/romanticism","display_name":"Romanticism","score":0.7699999809265137},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/species-succession","display_name":"species succession","score":0.5820000171661377}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776759703","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066907","display_name":"Longevity","level":2,"score":0.725548505783081},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199033989","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1318295","display_name":"Narrative","level":2,"score":0.6888610124588013},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C32685002","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37068","display_name":"Romanticism","level":2,"score":0.655850887298584},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C169903001","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3264987","display_name":"Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)","level":2,"score":0.6519943475723267},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94625758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163","display_name":"Politics","level":2,"score":0.6282209753990173},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779227060","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193942","display_name":"Immortality","level":2,"score":0.5873309373855591},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.5182159543037415},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777855551","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12310021","display_name":"Subject (documents)","level":2,"score":0.497715026140213},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C25343380","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q277521","display_name":"Relation (database)","level":2,"score":0.4509229362010956},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.415332555770874},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.4068297743797302},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.31462690234184265},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36289849","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34749","display_name":"Social science","level":1,"score":0.1896972358226776},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.17806729674339294},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.15517044067382812},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.12101998925209045},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.10656386613845825},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C161191863","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199655","display_name":"Library science","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C54355233","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7162","display_name":"Genetics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77088390","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8513","display_name":"Database","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1353/elh.2012.0036","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2012.0036","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2012.0036","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S169145255","display_name":"ELH","issn_l":"0013-8304","issn":["0013-8304","1080-6547"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315678","host_organization_name":"Johns Hopkins University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315678","https://openalex.org/P4310316510"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Johns Hopkins University Press","Johns Hopkins University"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"ELH","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:muse.jhu.edu:/article/491769","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://muse.jhu.edu/article/491769","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196299","display_name":"Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I145311948","host_organization_name":"Johns Hopkins University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I145311948"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"text"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":43,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W125016903","https://openalex.org/W359068545","https://openalex.org/W432709331","https://openalex.org/W569234490","https://openalex.org/W580105887","https://openalex.org/W592995164","https://openalex.org/W593751117","https://openalex.org/W609935940","https://openalex.org/W613527193","https://openalex.org/W622640552","https://openalex.org/W630610719","https://openalex.org/W638003745","https://openalex.org/W643964921","https://openalex.org/W1482604611","https://openalex.org/W1491804254","https://openalex.org/W1493849199","https://openalex.org/W1495615019","https://openalex.org/W1507027918","https://openalex.org/W1523177290","https://openalex.org/W1538603298","https://openalex.org/W1566957992","https://openalex.org/W1602209907","https://openalex.org/W1603208761","https://openalex.org/W1606270864","https://openalex.org/W1631191700","https://openalex.org/W1966725435","https://openalex.org/W1969746112","https://openalex.org/W1974512878","https://openalex.org/W1974911005","https://openalex.org/W1986887472","https://openalex.org/W1992766430","https://openalex.org/W2004707210","https://openalex.org/W2006233718","https://openalex.org/W2057254728","https://openalex.org/W2060370944","https://openalex.org/W2062318244","https://openalex.org/W2062402235","https://openalex.org/W2072977204","https://openalex.org/W2080957436","https://openalex.org/W2094301051","https://openalex.org/W2232314953","https://openalex.org/W2333018025","https://openalex.org/W2569311943"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4392572034","https://openalex.org/W7030435830","https://openalex.org/W3207660768","https://openalex.org/W2146645208","https://openalex.org/W2790496917","https://openalex.org/W2062402235","https://openalex.org/W3159902424","https://openalex.org/W4319992445","https://openalex.org/W3141737200","https://openalex.org/W3096730992"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"essay":[1],"reads":[2],"William":[3],"Godwin's":[4],"novel":[5],"St.":[6,26,64],"Leon":[7,65],"(1799)":[8],"in":[9,25,44,96],"relation":[10],"to":[11,42],"contemporaneous":[12],"medicalizing":[13],"discourses":[14],"concerned":[15],"with":[16,99],"the":[17,52,81,85,90,100],"elimination":[18],"of":[19,32,61,84,92,103],"old":[20],"age.":[21],"I":[22],"argue":[23],"that":[24],"Leon,":[27],"a":[28,33,59],"speculative":[29],"case":[30],"study":[31],"disastrously":[34],"unbounded":[35],"life,":[36],"Godwin":[37],"recants":[38],"his":[39],"earlier":[40],"paean":[41],"immortality":[43],"Enquiry":[45],"Concerning":[46],"Political":[47],"Justice":[48],"(1793-98)":[49],"by":[50],"undermining":[51],"solitary":[53],"subject":[54],"for":[55],"whom":[56],"senescence":[57],"is":[58],"symptom":[60],"political":[62],"tyranny.":[63],"therefore":[66],"signals":[67],"an":[68],"acute":[69],"transitional":[70],"moment":[71],"between":[72],"late":[73],"eighteenth-century":[74],"thought":[75],"and":[76,79],"incipient":[77],"Romanticism,":[78],"marks":[80],"first":[82],"example":[83],"nineteenth-century":[86],"longevity":[87],"narrative,":[88],"wherein":[89],"finitude":[91],"individual":[93],"lifespan":[94],"exists":[95],"strained":[97],"reciprocity":[98],"perpetual":[101],"succession":[102],"species.":[104]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":14},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-10-27T15:51:10.671819","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}