Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740

Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy.

Author: R. Tierney-Hynes
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/24/2012
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230369375

About the Author
REBECCA TIERNEY-HYNES is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has published essays in Eighteenth-Century Studies, SEL, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.