Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740

Tierney-Hynes, R.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-07-24

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230369375

DOI: 10.1057/9781137033291

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 223