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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967072403321
• Autore: Stewart Carol (Carol Ann)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010
• ISBN: 9786612743788; 9781315615943; 1315615940; 9781317034513; 1317034511; 9781317034506; 1317034503; 9781282743786; 1282743783; 9781409403715; 1409403718
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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
• 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.