Mind over matter: memory fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen

"Mind over Matter offers a new history of the early, eighteenth-century, novel in relation to empiricism's central claim about memory.

Eron considers how memory's creative force empowers both characters and readers-how that force alters, reconstitutes, and even overcomes the conditions of our physical environment.

Works discussed include those by Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, Laurence Sterne, and Jane Austen"--.