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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Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen Karen Bloom Gevirtz. LIFE AFTER DEATH Widows and the English Novel , Defoe to Austen Karen Bloom Gevirtz DELAWARE Newark : University of Delaware Press © 2005 by Rosemont Publishing & Printing ...
Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen Karen Bloom Gevirtz. LIFE AFTER DEATH Widows and the English Novel , Defoe to Austen Karen Bloom Gevirtz DELAWARE Newark : University of Delaware Press © 2005 by Rosemont Publishing & Printing ...
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... novel , Defoe to Austen / Karen Bloom Gevirtz . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-87413-923-6 ( alk . paper ) 1. English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism . 2. Widows in literature . 3 ...
... novel , Defoe to Austen / Karen Bloom Gevirtz . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-87413-923-6 ( alk . paper ) 1. English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism . 2. Widows in literature . 3 ...
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Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen Karen Bloom Gevirtz. Acknowledgments I HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY FORTUNATE TO HAVE INCURRED DEBTS TO the people and institutions mentioned here . In addition to the help that has made this ...
Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen Karen Bloom Gevirtz. Acknowledgments I HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY FORTUNATE TO HAVE INCURRED DEBTS TO the people and institutions mentioned here . In addition to the help that has made this ...
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... novel arrived in England at this moment . It was , to simplify a bit , the child of changes to print culture , cultural discourse , and eco- nomic opportunity . Novelists brought their creation to maturity by engaging with the cultural ...
... novel arrived in England at this moment . It was , to simplify a bit , the child of changes to print culture , cultural discourse , and eco- nomic opportunity . Novelists brought their creation to maturity by engaging with the cultural ...
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... novel proved a particularly effective medium for expound- ing sensibility , both by modeling it in fictional characters and by gen- erating feelings of sympathy in its readers . Works such as Robinson Crusoe and Caleb Williams ...
... novel proved a particularly effective medium for expound- ing sensibility , both by modeling it in fictional characters and by gen- erating feelings of sympathy in its readers . Works such as Robinson Crusoe and Caleb Williams ...
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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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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.