Governing Consumption: Needs and Wants, Suspended Characters, and the "Origins" of Eighteenth-Century English Novels (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

By James Cruise

This study challenges the line of critical thinking that locates the origins of the novel in the eighteenth century. It offers a different way of understanding the novel, as well as the issues surrounding its origins, and applies these findings to some of the well-known novels of Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838754287
• ISBN13: 9780838754283
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"