Author : Liz Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521622240
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (222 download)
Book Synopsis Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by : Liz Bellamy
Download or read book Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Liz Bellamy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.