Download or read book Novel Minds written by R. Tierney-Hynes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.