The Resource Life after death : widows and the English novel, Defoe to Austen, Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Life after death : widows and the English novel, Defoe to Austen, Karen Bloom Gevirtz
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- Summary
- "Life After Death demonstrates that, from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy to Jane Austen's Emma, authors of the developing novel modified conventions for representing the widow to reflect and shape distinctly eighteenth-century responses to emerging capitalism, and to limit female participation in this new system." "In the first book-length study of the widow in the British novel, Karen Bloom Gevirtz reveals how this seemingly marginal character was in fact central to the period's efforts to establish gender roles within emerging capitalism. Court records of cases involving widows, and the papers of private charities, most of which are examined in print for the first time, contrast with novelistic depictions by showing how criminal and poor widows were treated by their contemporaries. Canonical and non-canonical novels such as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Sarah Scott's Sir George Ellison, and Ann Radcliffe's masterpiece The Italian offer evidence of the period's wider economic consciousness by describing not just affluent widows, but also working widows, destitute widows, and criminal widows, populations that earlier authors generally overlooked." "Whether their interests lie with the novel, economics, gender roles, or the century that produced the French Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, ordinary and scholarly readers alike will find Life after Death illuminating and thought-provoking."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 218 pages
- Contents
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fear and property : affluence and the widow
- 3. Diligent and sentimental labor : work and the widow
- 4. Poor, pathetic, and positive : poverty and the widow
- 5. She put mercury into the morning milk : crime and the widow
- 6. A state of alteration, perhaps of improvement : Jane Austen's widows
- Appendix : Charity to widows in eighteenth-century England
- Isbn
- 9780874139235
- Label
- Life after death : widows and the English novel, Defoe to Austen
- Title
- Life after death
- Title remainder
- widows and the English novel, Defoe to Austen
- Statement of responsibility
- Karen Bloom Gevirtz
- Subject
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- Capitalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Capitalism in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Characters | Widows
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Characters | Widows
- Sex role in literature
- Widows in literature
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Life After Death demonstrates that, from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy to Jane Austen's Emma, authors of the developing novel modified conventions for representing the widow to reflect and shape distinctly eighteenth-century responses to emerging capitalism, and to limit female participation in this new system." "In the first book-length study of the widow in the British novel, Karen Bloom Gevirtz reveals how this seemingly marginal character was in fact central to the period's efforts to establish gender roles within emerging capitalism. Court records of cases involving widows, and the papers of private charities, most of which are examined in print for the first time, contrast with novelistic depictions by showing how criminal and poor widows were treated by their contemporaries. Canonical and non-canonical novels such as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Sarah Scott's Sir George Ellison, and Ann Radcliffe's masterpiece The Italian offer evidence of the period's wider economic consciousness by describing not just affluent widows, but also working widows, destitute widows, and criminal widows, populations that earlier authors generally overlooked." "Whether their interests lie with the novel, economics, gender roles, or the century that produced the French Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, ordinary and scholarly readers alike will find Life after Death illuminating and thought-provoking."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gevirtz, Karen Bloom
- Dewey number
- 823/.509352654
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR858.W5
- LC item number
- G48 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Widows in literature
- Capitalism and literature
- Women and literature
- Capitalism in literature
- Sex role in literature
- English fiction
- Defoe, Daniel
- Austen, Jane
- Label
- Life after death : widows and the English novel, Defoe to Austen, Karen Bloom Gevirtz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index
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- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fear and property : affluence and the widow -- 3. Diligent and sentimental labor : work and the widow -- 4. Poor, pathetic, and positive : poverty and the widow -- 5. She put mercury into the morning milk : crime and the widow -- 6. A state of alteration, perhaps of improvement : Jane Austen's widows -- Appendix : Charity to widows in eighteenth-century England
- Control code
- 57752369
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780874139235
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005003462
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Label
- Life after death : widows and the English novel, Defoe to Austen, Karen Bloom Gevirtz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fear and property : affluence and the widow -- 3. Diligent and sentimental labor : work and the widow -- 4. Poor, pathetic, and positive : poverty and the widow -- 5. She put mercury into the morning milk : crime and the widow -- 6. A state of alteration, perhaps of improvement : Jane Austen's widows -- Appendix : Charity to widows in eighteenth-century England
- Control code
- 57752369
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780874139235
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005003462
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Capitalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Capitalism in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Characters | Widows
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Characters | Widows
- Sex role in literature
- Widows in literature
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- History
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