The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics

By Carol Stewart

Book Overview

Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, L

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032926570
• ISBN13: 9781032926575
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"