Commerce, morality and the eighteenth-century novel
By: Liz Bellamy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Commerce in literature.; Didactic fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Literature and morals -- History -- 18th century.; Commerce -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Moral conditions in literature.; Ethics, Modern -- 18th century.; Ethics in literature.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-218) and index.