R. Tierney-Hynes

Broschiertes Buch

Novel Minds

Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

REBECCA TIERNEY-HYNES is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has published essays in Eighteenth-Century Studies, SEL, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-35053-7
• 1st ed. 2012
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9781349350537
• ISBN-10: 1349350532
• Artikelnr.: 45075354

Rezensionen

'Novel Minds delivers a nuanced understanding of the instabilities and uncertainties of the consciousness shaped by reading imagined in eighteenth-century philosophy and narrative prose. In a lively and engaging style, Tierney-Hynes brings the writings of significant writers into interesting conversation with each other.' - Ros Ballaster, Professor of 18th Century Studies, University of Oxford, UK