LEADER 02938nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910459346003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-317-03451-1 010 $a1-317-03450-3 010 $a1-282-74378-3 010 $a9786612743788 010 $a1-4094-0371-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034826 035 $a(EBL)564131 035 $a(OCoLC)665195740 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000435837 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12184098 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000435837 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10426585 035 $a(PQKB)11119835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC564131 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL564131 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10406819 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL274378 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034826 100 $a20091215d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe eighteenth-century novel and the secularization of ethics$b[electronic resource] /$fCarol Stewart 210 $aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7546-6348-5 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aLinking 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aChristian ethics in literature 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aLatitudinarianism (Church of England)$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aChristian ethics in literature. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLatitudinarianism (Church of England)$xHistory 676 $a823/.509353 700 $aStewart$b Carol$g(Carol Ann)$0868412 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459346003321 996 $aThe eighteenth-century novel and the secularization of ethics$91938536 997 $aUNINA