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Novel Minds : Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740

Part of the Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print series
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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.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
0230369375 / 9780230369375
Hardback
192
24/07/2012
United Kingdom
English
232 p.
23 cm