Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author | : Liz Bellamy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998-07-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521622240 |
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There has been much debate about the literary origins of the novel. Liz Bellamy argues that the evolution of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain should also be seen in the context of other cultural changes, in particular the emergence of the study of economics. Through fresh readings of a wide range of novels, Bellamy examines the novel's engagement with contemporary debates over public and private virtues and commercial and anti-commercial ethics, and shows how crucial these were to the structure and moral content of the novel as a form.