Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to AustenUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 218 страница 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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... means to live in such a system ar- guably provoked some of the most significant modern cultural de- velopments , including the emergence of the novel . The novel facili- tated the exploration of issues arising from these developments ...
... means to live in such a system ar- guably provoked some of the most significant modern cultural de- velopments , including the emergence of the novel . The novel facili- tated the exploration of issues arising from these developments ...
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... mean women who did not have to work and who could afford to keep at least one servant , reinforced emerging no- tions of femininity . Novels promoted a model of virtuous , affluent widowhood as maternal , benevolent , and community ...
... mean women who did not have to work and who could afford to keep at least one servant , reinforced emerging no- tions of femininity . Novels promoted a model of virtuous , affluent widowhood as maternal , benevolent , and community ...
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... means of support . They were not expected to manage it in such a way as to increase rev- enues or expand their influence ; on the contrary , they were as- sumed to lack the ability to do so , for such an ability would be out of keeping ...
... means of support . They were not expected to manage it in such a way as to increase rev- enues or expand their influence ; on the contrary , they were as- sumed to lack the ability to do so , for such an ability would be out of keeping ...
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... means to her . For her own benefit , she ca- pitulates to older , richer widows and promotes marriage for conve- nience , pressuring Sidney into doing what is useful to the other wid- ows rather than good for herself . Even Sidney ...
... means to her . For her own benefit , she ca- pitulates to older , richer widows and promotes marriage for conve- nience , pressuring Sidney into doing what is useful to the other wid- ows rather than good for herself . Even Sidney ...
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Diligent and Sentimental Labor Work and the Widow | 66 |
Poor Pathetic and Positive Poverty and the Widow | 95 |
She Put Mercury into the Morning Milk Crime and the Widow | 116 |
A State of Alteration Perhaps of Improvement Jane Austens Widows | 137 |
Charity to Widows in EighteenthCentury England | 169 |
Notes | 177 |
Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 213 |
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Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen Karen Bloom Gevirtz Преглед исечка - 2005 |
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Accomplish'd Rake affluent widows Anne Bates behavior benevolence Betsy Thoughtless Cambridge century characters charity Clara Lennox Clara Reeve crime criminal widows Crusoe cultural Darnford daughter Defoe's dependent desire domestic economic eigh eighteenth eighteenth-century novel Elizabeth Elvira England English Evelina example female Ferrars fortune gender heroine History of Cornelia husband inherited Jane Austen Lady Bidulph Lady Russell live London Madame male Mansfield Park marriage marry maternal mercantile capitalism Millenium Hall Moll Flanders moral mother nomic novelists poor widows poverty Reeve Reeve's rejection remarriage remarry repr Robinson Sarah Fielding Sarah Fielding's Sarah Scott's School for Widows Scott selfish Sense and Sensibility sensibility sensibility's sentimental novel sexual Sidney Bidulph Sir George Ellison Smith Smollett social society Strictland teenth-century tion Tobias Smollett Tom Jones Toni Bowers transgressive Tristram Shandy values virtue virtuous widows wealth widowhood woman women York young
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Страница 116 - Parting with him! Why, that is the whole Scheme and Intention of all Marriage Articles. The comfortable Estate of Widow-hood, is the only hope that keeps up a Wife's Spirits.
Страница 165 - Captain Wentworth had no fortune. He had been lucky in his profession, but spending freely, what had come freely, had realized nothing. But, he was confident that he should soon be rich; - full of life and ardour, he knew that he should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that would lead to every thing he wanted. He had always been lucky; he knew he should be so still.
Страница 165 - Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen ; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in that profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!
Страница 165 - ... he wanted. He had always been lucky; he knew he should be so still. Such confidence, powerful in its own warmth, and bewitching in the wit which often expressed it, must have been enough for Anne ; but Lady Russell saw it very differently. His sanguine temper, and fearlessness of mind, operated very differently on her. She saw in it but an aggravation of the evil. It only added a dangerous character to himself.
Страница 199 - Oh, my dear! human flesh! You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave-trade, I assure you Mr. Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition.
Страница 199 - I did not mean, I was not thinking of the slave-trade,' replied Jane; 'governess-trade, I assure you, was all that I had in view; widely different certainly as to the guilt of those who carry it on; but as to the greater misery of the victims, I do not know where it lies.