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Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen

There is a remarkable number and variety of widows in the early English novel? Why this fascination with a formerly married woman? I show how eighteenth-century English novelists used the widow to express and work through anxieties about the changing economic system and women's roles in it.

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Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727

What we now call science and the novel emerged at the same time? Coincidence? Of course not. This book shows how novelists engaged with early science's developing ideas about the self, ultimately developing the omniscient point of view.

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Book cover, self portrait of Angellica Kaufman, neoclassical icons

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Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000-2015

This period saw an efflorescence of films and television programs set in the eighteenth century or adaptation eighteenth-century novels. In this book, I explain how these representations of the past justify and sanitize a deeply fraught period in Western history.

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