Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen
- ISBN-10
- 0874139236
- ISBN-13
- 9780874139235
- Series
- Life After Death
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Author
- Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Description
Life After Death shows how representations of the widow in theeighteenth-century novel express attitudes toward emerging capitalismand women's participation in it. Authors responded to the century'sinstability by using widows, who had the right to act economically andself-interestedly, to teach women that virtue meant foregoing theopportunities that the changing economy offered. Novelists thus helpedto create expectations for women that linger today, and established thenovel as a cultural arbiter. The first study of widows in the developingnovel, Life After Death also takes the next step in merging genre, gender, and economic criticism
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