LEADER 03154nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910967072403321 005 20240508225612.0 010 $a9786612743788 010 $a9781315615943 010 $a1315615940 010 $a9781317034513 010 $a1317034511 010 $a9781317034506 010 $a1317034503 010 $a9781282743786 010 $a1282743783 010 $a9781409403715 010 $a1409403718 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(Au-PeEL)EBL564131 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10406819 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL274378 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC564131 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 /$fCarol Stewart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781032926575 311 08$a1032926570 311 08$a9780754663485 311 08$a0754663485 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$y18th century 615 0$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)$01801015 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967072403321 996 $aThe eighteenth-century novel and the secularization of ethics$94346040 997 $aUNINA