The author examines the works of English novelists of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics include social change, domesticity, and economic policies. IN THE ORDER OF THINGS, Michel Foucault traces the shift from an early modern paradigm in which meaning was an inherent part of the sign to a more modern formulation in which meaning was positioned as the outcome of human efforts at representation and interpretation. Over the course of the eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries, Foucault argues, there was a shift from an early modern paradigm where "knowledge always resided entire...
