Novel Minds. Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740, 1st ed. 2012, Paperback/R. Tierney-Hynes

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. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Author(s): R. Tierney-Hynes Illustration(s): VIII, 223 p. Number of pages: 223 Collection: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Publication date: 2012 Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 18 Cover type: Paperback / softback