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