COMMERCE, MORALITY AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL by Liz Bellamy ( 9780521622240 )

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COMMERCE, MORALITY AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL

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ISBN 10:

0521622247

ISBN 13:

9780521622240

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 July, 1998

Pages:

232

Description:

The evolution of the novel in the context of the language and concepts of contemporary economic debate.

Synopsis:

British culture underwent radical change in the eighteenth century with the emergence of new literary genres and new discourses of social analysis. As novelists developed new forms of fiction, writers of economic tracts and treatises sought a new language and a conceptual framework to describe the modern commercial state. 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.

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Cambridge University Press

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