Novel Minds Philosophers And Romance Readers - 1680-1740

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.

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