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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459346003321

Autore

Stewart Carol (Carol Ann)

Titolo

The eighteenth-century novel and the secularization of ethics [[electronic resource] /] / Carol Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010

ISBN

1-317-03451-1

1-317-03450-3

1-282-74378-3

9786612743788

1-4094-0371-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

823/.509353

Soggetti

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Ethics in literature

Christian ethics in literature

Religion and literature - England - History - 18th century

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.