Mind over matter : memory fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen /
"Mind over Matter offers a new history of the early, eighteenth-century, novel in relation to empiricism's central claim about memory. Eron considers how memory's creative force empowers both characters and readers-how that force alters, reconstitutes, and even overcomes the condition...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2021
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Mind over Matter offers a new history of the early, eighteenth-century, novel in relation to empiricism's central claim about memory. Eron considers how memory's creative force empowers both characters and readers-how that force alters, reconstitutes, and even overcomes the conditions of our physical environment. Works discussed include those by Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, Laurence Sterne, and Jane Austen"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813945682 0813945682 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Sarah Eron is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island and author of Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment. |
