Commerce, morality and the eighteenth-century novel

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Commerce,  Commerce in literature,  Didactic fiction, English,  English Didactic fiction,  English fiction,  Ethics in literature,  Ethics, Modern,  History,  History and criticism,  Literature and morals,  Modern Ethics,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Moral and ethical aspects of Commerce,  Moral conditions in literature,  English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century,  Didactic fiction, history and criticism,  Great britain, history, 18th century

Times: 18th century