Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 2. The economic context; 3. The literary context; Part II. Texts: 4. The mid-eighteenth-century novel; 5. The novel of circulation; 6. The sentimental novel; 7. The Jacobin novel; 8. Conclusion.

Promotional Information

The evolution of the novel in the context of the language and concepts of contemporary economic debate.

Reviews

"...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