Novel and moral philosophy
Three posts with Julie Park on the eighteenth-century novel, Charlotte Lennox, and the language of moral philosophy.
- The Novel and Moral Philosophy 1: What Does Charlotte Lennox Have to Do with Adam Smith?
The Visualizing English Print group is using new visualization tools to study genre dynamics in our corpus of texts spanning the years 1530-1799. While far from comprehensive, the corpus spans an interesting period in…
- The Novel and Moral Philosophy 2: Telling and Feeling, Aunts and Letters
Before I begin commenting on what I see in Serendip’s findings, I think it is worth providing some general information about the work from which the screen shot below is taken. The author, Charlotte Lennox (1730-1804),…
- The Novel and Moral Philosophy 3: What Does Lennox Do with Moral Philosophy Words?
The previous two posts explored how an eighteenth century novel uses words from an associated topic to fulfill, and perhaps shape, the expectations of an audience looking to immerse themselves in a life as it is lived.…