Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics
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Anglican theology
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Book III
British Enlightenment
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Clarissa's Death
Clarissa’s Death
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David Simple
East Indies
eighteenth-century literature
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Female Quixote
Ferdinand Count Fathom
gender and authority
Henry Fielding
Independent Country Gentleman
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Lady Bellaston
Lady Booby
Lady Bradshaigh
Latitudinarianism
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Miss Sidney Bidulph
moral philosophy
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Peregrine Pickle
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Poet Laureate Colley Cibber
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Roderick Random
Sarah Fielding
secular ethics in novels
Selected Letters
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Sidney Bidulph
Sidney's Mother
Sidney’s Mother
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Smock Alley Theatre
Sterne
Sterne's Sermon
Sterne’s Sermon
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Thomas Keymer
Tobias Smollett
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754663485
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Jane Austen trace the translation of ethical debate into secular and gendered terms. Stewart argues that the seventeenth-century debate about ethics that divided Latitudinarians and Calvinists found its way into novels of the eighteenth century. Her book explores the growing belief that novels could do the work of moral reform more effectively than the Anglican Church, with attention to related developments, including the promulgation of Anglican ethics in novels as a response to challenges to Anglican practice and authority. An increasingly legitimate genre, she argues, offered a forum both for investigating the situation of women and challenging patriarchal authority, and for challenging the dominant political ideology.
Carol Stewart is a lecturer in eighteenth-century literature at Queen's University, Belfast.
