Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

by Liz Bellamy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521020379
• ISBN13: 9780521020374
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"