TY - BOOK AU - Stewart,Carol TI - The eighteenth-century novel and the secularization of ethics SN - 9781409403715 AV - PR858.E67 S74 2010eb U1 - 823/.509353 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Ethics in literature KW - Christian ethics in literature KW - Religion and literature KW - England KW - History KW - Latitudinarianism (Church of England) KW - Roman anglais KW - 18e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Morale dans la littérature KW - Religion et littérature KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire KW - Latitudinarisme (Church of England) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - conditions sociales KW - éthique KW - religion KW - roman anglais KW - 18e s KW - rero KW - latitudinarisme KW - littérature anglaise KW - Church of England (Angleterre) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Secularizing ethics: from Pamela to Tom Jones -- Opposition and persuasion: from Roderick Random to Humphry Clinker -- Rewriting ethics: David Simple, The female Quixote and Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph -- Tristram Shandy: Latitudinarianism and liberty -- Hurtful insignificance: the novel in the later eighteenth century N2 - 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 shed light on the literary marketplace and the status of writers UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=389807 ER -