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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      23 July 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511585135
      9780521622240
      9780521020374
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585135
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.466kg, 232 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.355kg, 232 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    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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    "...offer[s] lively and provocative readings of eighteenth-century fiction and insights into its provenance." John Russell Stephens

    "Bellamy introduces new discourses and genres into the cultural mix from which the novel emerges and reenvisages what these discourses are trying to do..." Modern Philology

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