Life after death : widows and the English novel, Defoe to Austen / Karen Bloom Gevirtz.
"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 eme...
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Newark : Cranbury, NJ :
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses,
[2005]
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Table of 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.