Novel Minds [electronic resource] : Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740 /
Tierney-Hynes, R.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Introduction: From Passions to Language: The Transformation of the ImaginationLocke: 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 NotesBibliographyIndex.
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.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
British literature.
Literature, Modern
Literature
Literature, Modern.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.