The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues: An Introduction

by Stuart Sim

This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues. Eighteenth-century authors grappled with very similar problems to the ones we face today such as: what motivates a fundamentalist terrorist? What are the justifiable limits of state power? What dangers lie in wait for us when we create life artificially?The book discusses key authors from Aphra Behn in the late seventeenth century to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748625992
• ISBN13: 9780748625994
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"