Description
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611492774
Author Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Format Hardback
Page Count 218
Imprint University of Delaware Press
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 499g
Book Information
ISBN 9781611492774
Author Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Format Hardback
Page Count 218
Imprint University of Delaware Press
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 499g
