Life After Death - Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen

Informationen zum Autor Karen Bloom Gevirtz is assistant professor of English at Seton Hall University Klappentext Life after Death shows how representations of the widow in the eighteenth-century novel express attitudes toward emerging capitalism and women's participation in it. Authors responded to the century's instability by using widows, who had the right to act economically and self-interestedly, to teach women that virtue meant foregoing the opportunities that the changing economy offered. Novelists thus helped to create expectations for women that linger today, and established the novel as a cultural arbiter.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Gevirtz, Karen Bloom Gevirtz, Gevirtz Karen Bloom
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611492774
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-277-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literary reference works