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Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Jane Austen shed light on the literary marketplace and the status of writers.

English fiction --- Ethics in literature. --- Christian ethics in literature. --- Religion and literature --- Latitudinarianism (Church of England) --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- History and criticism. --- History --- Moral and religious aspects --- Christian ethics in literature --- Ethics in literature --- History and criticism