Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740

By Rebecca Tierney-Hynes

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349350532
• ISBN13: 9781349350537
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"