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Life After Death
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
其他書名
Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen
出版University of Delaware Press, 2005
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity
ISBN08741392369780874139235
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lmO1-_MIInkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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