Title: Commerce, morality and the eighteenth-century novel /
Authors: Bellamy, Liz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism; Commerce in literature.; Didactic fiction, English History and criticism.; Literature and morals History; Commerce Moral and ethical aspects.; Moral conditions in literature.; Ethics, Modern; Ethics in literature.
Abstract: "In Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Liz Bellamy argues that the evolution of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain needs to be seen in the context of the discursive conflict between economics and more traditional systems of social analysis. In a series of fresh readings of a wide range of novels. Bellamy shows how the novel contributed to the debate over public and private virtues and had to negotiate between commercial and anti-commercial ethics. The resulting choices were crucial in determining the structure as well as the moral content of the novel."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Contexts: The economic context ; The literary context -- Part II. Texts: The mid-eighteenth-century novel ; The novel of circulation ; The sentimental novel ; The Jacobin novel ; Conclusion.