1st Edition
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics
By Carol Stewart
Copyright 2010
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Secularizing ethics: from Pamela to Tom Jones; Opposition and persuasion: from Roderick Random to Humphry Clinker; Rewriting ethics: David Simple, The Female Quixote and Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph; Tristram Shandy: latitudinarianism and liberty; 'Hurtful insignificance'? The novel in the later 18th century; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Carol Stewart is a lecturer in eighteenth-century literature at Queen's University, Belfast.
'[This book] provides a broad overview of the eighteenth-century novel’s increasing and changing moral legitimacy and makes gender politics a crucial part of this history.' English Studies 'A significant contribution to the study of the relations between Sterne’s fiction and his religious beliefs...' The Scriblerian 'Given its subject, literary scholars will be particularly interested in this book, but others whose interests span the history of ideas in eighteenth-century Britain should not overlook it either.' Notes and Queries
