Introduction : Memory fictions -- Accounting for Crusoe's survival : how memory matters -- Re-membering the real : Uncle Toby's maps and models -- Evelina and the virtues of memory -- Strange concussions of nature : Celestina's mindscapes -- Wistful thinking : Fanny's absent forms -- Afterthoughts : remembering the archive.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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