Browse Items (3 total)

In this excerpt, the article emphasizes the fact that we read novels because they enable us to be introspective and offer a basis for comparison against our real lives. This is a similar idea to Metcalf's theory that people in the middle class read…

This is an excerpt from Doornik's work
Voorlezingen over f. j. Gall Herssenscedelleer. Here he uses a metaphor to compare a person's skull/mind with a globe where it allows others to explore and locate certain desires and inclinations. The mind of…

An annotated version of paragraph 2 of Haywood'sFantomina. These annotations pay special attention to the perception of women in the 18th century within the context of writings by philosophers such as David Hume and John Locke.