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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
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Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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| Summary |
In this lively and original book, eighteenth-century philosophy is called to account for what it owes to the early novel. Through the figure of the romance reader, the author tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt the background of eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making their appearance in philosophy. Through discussions of Locke, Behn, Shaftesbury, Hume, and Richardson, this book traces the idea of romance as, in the process of engendering resistance, it comes nonetheless to define the empiricist mind as the reading mind. |
| Contents |
Introduction: From Passions to Language: The Transformation of the Imagination -- Locke: 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Books and reading. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Romances, English -- History and criticism.
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Romances, English. |
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Philosophy in literature.
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Philosophy, English -- 18th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Philosophy in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance. |
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Philosophy, English. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. |
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1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tierney-Hynes, Rebecca, 1976- Philosophers and romance readers, 1680-1740. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9780230369375 (DLC) 2012022126 (OCoLC)785873564 |
| ISBN |
9781137033291 (electronic book) |
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1137033290 (electronic book) |
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9781349350537 |
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