Governing Consumption: Needs and Wants, Suspended Characters, and the "Origins" of Eighteenth-century English NovelsBucknell University Press, 1999 - 246 pages He thereby argues that commercialization and the dynamic of its demand-based economy helped to shape the cultural processes by which the novel became a discursively rich, character-centered genre. Paradoxically, however, each of these "realistic" novelists, other than Sterne, failed in his attempt to erect character as a moral buffer against the suspense of a commerically driven world."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Preface | 9 |
Needs and Wants and | 33 |
The Suspended Character | 65 |
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