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Novel Minds

Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740
By:R. Tierney-Hynes
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230369375
eText ISBN:9781137033291
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.