Life After Death

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Life After Death is written by Karen Bloom Gevirtz and published by University of Delaware Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0874139236 (ISBN 10) and 9780874139235 (ISBN 13).

Life After Death shows how representations of the widow in theeighteenth-century novel express attitudes toward emerging capitalismand women's participation in it. Authors responded to the century'sinstability by using widows, who had the right to act economically andself-interestedly, to teach women that virtue meant foregoing theopportunities that the changing economy offered. Novelists thus helpedto create expectations for women that linger today, and established thenovel as a cultural arbiter. The first study of widows in the developingnovel, Life After Death also takes the next step in merging genre, gender, and economic criticism