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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... values that business required , such as enterprise , aggression , education in certain kinds of knowl- edge and skills , self - possession , and ambition , came to be considered masculine . In turn , English womanhood came to represent ...
... values that business required , such as enterprise , aggression , education in certain kinds of knowl- edge and skills , self - possession , and ambition , came to be considered masculine . In turn , English womanhood came to represent ...
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... value and has the right to look out for his own best interests.17 Efforts to constrain women's ability to participate in the eco- nomic and social expansions included specific attempts to limit the powers attached to widowhood ...
... value and has the right to look out for his own best interests.17 Efforts to constrain women's ability to participate in the eco- nomic and social expansions included specific attempts to limit the powers attached to widowhood ...
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... value systems , which came into play in redefining female virtue and economy during this period.20 Arguably the most perva- sive of eighteenth - century popular ideologies was sensibility . Most simply defined , sensibility is the idea ...
... value systems , which came into play in redefining female virtue and economy during this period.20 Arguably the most perva- sive of eighteenth - century popular ideologies was sensibility . Most simply defined , sensibility is the idea ...
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... values . The novel's representation of the widow therefore is signifi- cant in light of its ability to participate in the social and economic debates of the day and generally , the eighteenth - century novel par- ticipated by ...
... values . The novel's representation of the widow therefore is signifi- cant in light of its ability to participate in the social and economic debates of the day and generally , the eighteenth - century novel par- ticipated by ...
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... values and behavior in the emerging system , and about women participating in it . Smollett and Reeve are dissimilar in sig- nificant ways , most obviously by gender . Their novels were separated by forty years , and therefore manifest ...
... values and behavior in the emerging system , and about women participating in it . Smollett and Reeve are dissimilar in sig- nificant ways , most obviously by gender . Their novels were separated by forty years , and therefore manifest ...
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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.