The eighteenth-century novel and the secularization of ethics / Carol Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Carol (Carol Ann)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Ethics in literature.

Christian ethics in literature.

Religion and literature--England--History--18th century.

Religion and literature.

Latitudinarianism (Church of England)--History--18th century.

Latitudinarianism (Church of England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Jane Austen shed light on the literary marketplace and the status of writers.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Secularizing Ethics: From Pamela to Tom Jones; 2 Opposition and Persuasion: From Roderick Random to Humphry Clinker; 3 Rewriting Ethics: David Simple, The Female Quixote, and Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph; 4 Tristram Shandy: Latitudinarianism and Liberty; 5 'Hurtful Insignificance'?: The Novel in the Later Eighteenth Century; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612743788

9781315615943

1315615940

9781317034513

1317034511

9781317034506

1317034503

9781282743786

1282743783

9781409403715

1409403718

OCLC:

665195740