2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Thematic Criticism of the Rise of the Novel (II): Money, Medicine, Politics, and Things
This chapter begins by aiming to answer the question of how critics after Watt have interpreted the rising novel’s relationship to economic forces. Next it considers the place of fiction in eighteenth-century political ideology and then in relation to contemporaneous medical ideas. Finally, through the lens of thing theory, it discusses the novel’s place in a material culture of objects.