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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.

Life After Death: Widows And The English Novel, Defoe To Austen

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    Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
    Publication Date: 01/01/2006
    ISBN13: 9781611492774, 978-1611492774
    ISBN10: 1611492777

    Number of Pages: 218

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    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.

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