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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... virtuous and clever , since all of her actions are taken to preserve not herself , but her fam- ily , whether of marriage or birth . She manages men , but with their blessing , and she seeks the property to restore her birth family's es ...
... virtuous and clever , since all of her actions are taken to preserve not herself , but her fam- ily , whether of marriage or birth . She manages men , but with their blessing , and she seeks the property to restore her birth family's es ...
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... virtuous widows tend to eschew profit - oriented commer- cialism or employ commercial activity for altruism or dependence . In light of the novel's reputation for defying strict definition and for exploring complex and often thorny ...
... virtuous widows tend to eschew profit - oriented commer- cialism or employ commercial activity for altruism or dependence . In light of the novel's reputation for defying strict definition and for exploring complex and often thorny ...
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... virtuous wid- ows includes very real nuances that reflect developments over the course of the century . Novelists introduced an important innovation by using widows of all classes to explore the intersection of gender , economics , and ...
... virtuous wid- ows includes very real nuances that reflect developments over the course of the century . Novelists introduced an important innovation by using widows of all classes to explore the intersection of gender , economics , and ...
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... - tions of femininity . Novels promoted a model of virtuous , affluent widowhood as maternal , benevolent , and community oriented . Such widows are interested in gain for the family and for 26 2: Fear and Property: Affluence and the Widow.
... - tions of femininity . Novels promoted a model of virtuous , affluent widowhood as maternal , benevolent , and community oriented . Such widows are interested in gain for the family and for 26 2: Fear and Property: Affluence and the Widow.
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... virtuous widows may engage in commercial activity , but only under certain conditions very unlike those under which men could act . Later in the century in particular , when mercantile capitalism had a much stronger hold on society ...
... virtuous widows may engage in commercial activity , but only under certain conditions very unlike those under which men could act . Later in the century in particular , when mercantile capitalism had a much stronger hold on society ...
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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.