Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics

Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics

Stewart, Carol

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2010

228

Dura

Inglês

9780754663485

15 a 20 dias

Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, this title provides a fresh perspective on the rise of the novel.
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.
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