Novel Minds

Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-35053-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 359 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tierney-Hynes, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: From Passions to Language: The Transformation of the Imagination Locke: Metaphorical Romances Behn: Romance from the Stage to the Letter Shaftesbury: Conversation and the Psychology of Romance Hume: Reading Romances, Writing the Self Richardson: How to Read Romance Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.