Carol Stewart is a lecturer in eighteenth-century literature at Queen's University, Belfast.
'[This book] provides a broad overview of the eighteenth-century novel’s increasing and changing moral legitimacy and makes gender politics a crucial part of this history.' English Studies 'A significant contribution to the study of the relations between Sterne’s fiction and his religious beliefs...' The Scriblerian 'Given its subject, literary scholars will be particularly interested in this book, but others whose interests span the history of ideas in eighteenth-century Britain should not overlook it either.' Notes and Queries