LEADER 03802nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910777495303321 005 20230721031225.0 010 $a1-281-35762-6 010 $a9786611357627 010 $a0-7486-3131-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748631315 035 $a(CKB)1000000000412257 035 $a(EBL)343580 035 $a(OCoLC)254163698 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000144738 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144653 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144738 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10145723 035 $a(PQKB)11159056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC343580 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL343580 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435270 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL135762 035 $a(OCoLC)232571587 035 $a(DE-B1597)615104 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748631315 035 $a(OCoLC)1306538587 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000412257 100 $a20080204d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe eighteenth-century novel and contemporary social issues$b[electronic resource] $ean introduction /$fStuart Sim 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-2599-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and index. 327 $aCOVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Oroonoko, or, The History of the Royal Slave and Race Relations; Chapter 2: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Born-Again Theology and Intelligent Design; Chapter 3: Gulliver's Travels, Multiculturalism and Cultural Difference; Chapter 4: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded and Sexual Abstinence; Chapter 5: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Anti-Social Behaviour; Chapter 6: The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella and Northanger Abbey: The Power of the Media and Popular Culture 327 $aChapter 7: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and Genetic Inheritance Chapter 8: The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance and Family Values; Chapter 9: Caleb Williams, or, Things As They Are and the Surveillance Society; Chapter 10: Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since and Disputed Sovereignty; Chapter 11: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus and Artificial Life; Chapter 12: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Fundamentalist Terrorism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues. Eighteenth-century authors grappled with very similar problems to the ones we face today such as: what motivates a fundamentalist terrorist? What are the justifiable limits of state power? What dangers lie in wait for us when we create life artificially? The book discusses key authors from Aphra Behn in the late seventeenth century to James Hogg in the 1820's, covering the 'long' eighteenth century. It guides readers through the main genres of the period from Realism, Gothic roma 517 3 $a18th century novel and contemporary social issues 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9005 676 $a823.5093556 700 $aSim$b Stuart$0144074 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777495303321 996 $aThe eighteenth-century novel and contemporary social issues$93829380 997 $aUNINA